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I 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 o

• Synaesthesia 11y ago
  My 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 ago
    Issues 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.