In Apple Tablet, App Makers See a Wider Playing Field - NYTimes.com

In Apple Tablet, App Makers See a Wider Playing Field - NYTimes.com: "Apple’s move to open up the iPhone to outside programmers in 2008 started a software-writing frenzy. Giant companies and bedroom tinkerers alike rushed to get their applications into the App Store and onto the phone’s 3.5-inch touch screen.

Now those developers are about to get a bigger stage — or at least a bigger screen.

The tablet computer that Apple is widely expected to introduce on Wednesday will run applications designed for the iPhone, judging from data that an app-tracking company is picking up from devices in use around Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, Calif."