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The iPad had 2,000 apps on launch day: http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/02/best-ipad-apps-launch/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/02/best-ipad-apps-launch/ Hell, ev
by Xuzz 15y ago
The iPad had 2,000 apps on launch day: http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/02/best-ipad-apps-launch/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/02/best-ipad-apps-launch/
Hell, even the HP TouchPad had 300 at launch a month ago (which may even be more than Honeycomb had then, there's no way to tell due to that Market issue).
I don't know why there's so few apps for Android tablets, but I haven't seen any signs of the numbers getting much higher. And it's not like developers haven't had both 6 months to work and (for some) free Google I/O tablets to develop on.
- nitrogen 15y agoPart of the reason for the paucity of tablet-specific apps may be that Android does a better job of scaling phone-sized apps to the tablet screen. My friend's Xoom, for example, appeared to run fantastically with the same ConnectBot SSH client as my phone right after the Xoom's release. Edit: refute, please, instead of/in addition to downvoting. Seriously. Android does this.
- Xuzz 15y agoAndroid does do this, but it only very rarely has worked for me. Like, take the Dropbox app, which is even listed under "featured tablet apps": you have file listings that are 8" wide, with no more content shown on a tablet than on a phone (which is just file name and icon). A few, rare apps are usable scaled (ConnectBot is a good example), but almost nothing is ideal — or even usable — OOTB. At least with the ones I've tried.
- nitrogen 15y agoWould you say the Android situation is better or worse than the pixel doubling seen on the iPad for iPhone apps?
- Xuzz 15y agoNot really relevant, since there's enough iPad apps that it doesn't matter: I use one pixel-doubled app on the iPad (Facebook) and they're coming out with a native app very soon anyway.