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It's off to a pretty slow start. Android on phones was coming from nothing. On tablets it's different - I expected a much faster takeup with at very least a h
by zmmmmm 15y ago
It's off to a pretty slow start. Android on phones was coming from nothing. On tablets it's different - I expected a much faster takeup with at very least a huge number of developers doing minimal tweaks and updating graphics just so they could be in the small pool of tablet apps and get more exposure by calling themselves "HD" or "Honycomb compatible". But if I understand right (and I'm not able to test this directly) there is still only a very small number of apps specialised for tablets.
I think part of the problem was the very anemic Xoom launch which simply didn't get many devices into developers hands, especially outside the US, and the quite unusable Honeycomb emulator which also turned off many devs from even trying to support Honeycomb. Google tried to fix that at Google IO but they should do much more.
It's worth noting another part of this is confusion about how Android works - there is no reason to create a "honeycomb specific app" on Android. The whole point of Android's layout and fragment infrastructure is to let you easily make an app that seamlessly caters to any number of form factors. So the idea of looking for and counting apps that are dedicated to Honeycomb is silly - it's not surprising there aren't many of those, and those that do have specific support for Honeycomb aren't necessarily labeled that way in the market like they are in iTunes (which is a problem with the market).