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So they fixed the issues of touches not responding and maybe some of the worst unexpected crashing, but the major issues remain like almost all apps still being
by Synaesthesia 11y ago
So they fixed the issues of touches not responding and maybe some of the worst unexpected crashing, but the major issues remain like almost all apps still being built for phone sizes, lack of multitasking and the fact that most apps only run in portrait mode, all of which are really not acceptable on 10" tablets.
- nathanasmith 11y agoI follow you on everything else but >> most apps only run in portrait mode What? That's not even remotely true. I think out of the hundred or so apps I have on my Android tablet, there might be one that is stuck in portrait mode.
- Synaesthesia 11y agoMy apology this is what I inferred from reading review of it, on The Verge: "It gets worse with third-party apps. The Pixel C wants to be used in landscape mode, but too many apps assume that they’re on phones. Popular apps like Slack, Twitter, and many more toss you into portrait mode even when the keyboard is attached." From Ars Technica: "A new entry of late is the "pillarboxed phone app," which is made by designers that see the above issue and say "No problem! We'll put big margins on the left and right of the screen! It's a tablet app now!"
- josteink 11y agoIssues like this with one of the first Android tablets/netbook-convertibles (the TF101, running original Honeycomb 3.0) drove me to develop this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.kjonigsen.straitjacket https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.kjonigsen.... I see from the discussion here that it is obviously still needed.