iPad version released; vendor promises more to come. When Avaya announced the Flare Experience and the Avaya Video Desktop Device in September 2010, I wrote here on No Jitter, "moving Avaya Flare to a computer desktop--and quickly--is a must." I'm sure no one at the time would have predicted it would be 16 months before Flare software appeared on a non-Avaya device, the Apple iPad. The market requirement to bring Flare to additional devices is clear from one number, repeated twice in yesterday's analyst briefing. The first time was when Avaya highlighted the breadth of users who trialed Flare for iPad (partners and a public beta) before release--4,000+. That same number was repeated later during the Q&A when fellow No Jitter blogger Blair Pleasant asked how many Avaya Desktop Video Devices have been sold to date--4,000+.