I am sure the extra screen real estate on the iPad will add greatly to the usability of FileMaker Go. I am going to focus on the iPhone/iTouch version, as my son has wandered off with the family iPad. Now that they are here and widely available, many developers and FileMaker users, will, no doubt be interested in getting their hands on them.

Presumably the delays had to do with first the iPad shipping, and then the launch of i0S4. After all Bento, FileMaker’s little brother database for the Mac, has been available for the iPhone since January 2008. It is a bit of a mystery as to why it took FileMaker Inc., quite so long to release this software. The demo was given at the FileMaker’s Developers Conference in August 2009 in San Francisco, under non-disclosure, so we couldn’t talk about it then. As FileMaker developers, we were given a glimpse of this product family last year (we didn’t know it would be a family at that point, it was before the iPad shipped). These two versions will run on the iPhone/iPod Touch ($19.99) and the iPad ($39.99). As you may have heard by now, FileMaker has finally launched portable versions of FileMaker Pro, called FileMaker Go.

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