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Why Google Isn't Pushing Android For Tablets
Brad Linder of Liliputing posted an interesting analysis today about Google's reluctance to endorse Android for tablets. Linder argues that while there may be legitimate concern that Android just isn't polished enough for devices without phone access (because some apps need it), it would be smart for Google to segregate the apps themselves, so users can simply know which apps will work on Wi-Fi-only tablets. But from Google's perspective, he observes, "pushing a version of Android that isn't exclusively for phones could be all it takes for Chrome OS to be dead on arrival."
This from the guys that literally double the dimensions of the iPhone's apps just to run on the tablet?
Android isn't designed for Tablet either to be fair.
I don't get what you're saying, something designed for multiple screen sizes in your mind should use exclusively scalable graphics?
How can anyone stand by the claim that an entirely touch screen based UI was conceived for a freaking phone without consideration of larger general purpose devices. A _phone_ without buttons. Before a general purpose tablet sized computer with a touch screen. You know, like the ones from 2000. NO, Apple couldn't have possibly heard of those! Really dude, touch screen tablet computers are over a decade old now, and you're seriously going to claim that Apple designed an all touch screen phonputer with an application store, and this idea for a tablet, and I'm not even going to qualify that with 'touch screen' because TOUCHSCREEN AND TABLET ARE REDUNDANT, this idea for a general purpose tablet sized computing device with an application store came after the success of the PHONE?
Maybe they did take the idea of the tablet PC from ~2000 and said "these wont work, but what if we shrunk it and made it into a phone with no buttons?" Then later, with a successful, established software marketplace for cellular phones, in a eureka sort of moment, Jobs wipes the coke off his face and screams "OI! What if we made the phone bigger... but get this... we get rid of the PHONE part, and extend our software marketplace to it because it's basically a computer!!!!11"
There's nothing specifically brilliant about IOS that makes it a tablet user's wet dream besides the fact that it already had touch as its primary interface (admittedly this is one of the primary reasons that previous tablet computing initiatives died out quickly).
So they fixed the tablet concept by making a touch centric UI for a touch centric device, turn it into a little phone with no buttons, then it dawns on them that uhh.. gorsh, we fixed the tablet concept and have an exclusive software store, why not sell those too?
What gets you out of bed each day? D... do you get out of bed?? If you didn't realize this was all planned out the MOMENT you heard "App Store" you should get off Slashdot. I'm sorry, it should be so obvious to any self respecting geek that the App Store was/is headed other places. Please, act real surprised for me when when they announce whatever OS X marketplace is being cooked up so we can have this retarded discussion again in the future.