So the way it looks is that Amazon and B&N etc. make apps that bring customers to buy the device in the first place.

A few artists have made apps, but are they selling faster than albums, or some other metric?

To help us build on the success of that effort, we're interested in your ideas about sustainable models that support developers so they can make green apps.

Seriously Katherine, how can the Guardian seriously claim they are "committed to making best in-class apps" after this?

It's a dizzying time to be making apps, and an exciting time to be writing about them.

Lots of publishers and startups are making apps for kids, but how big is the demand for them?

Yes, Agile Partners make great apps, some that are tangentially music-related (not made to actually produce quality audio before this).

But Scott Snibbe was the project manager as well as making individual apps ...

Yeah, there's bound to be plenty of good code out there if not ready made canned apps for this sort of thing.

The entire development effort is designed into making apps, it seems, and left unix-style programming in the dust.