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Why Are There So Few Honeycomb Apps?

Posted by samzenpus on from the endangered-species dept.

Fudge Factor 3000 writes "PC World's Brent Rose investigates the reason behind the dearth of Honeycomb apps even though the OS was released in February with the release of the Xoom. One would have expected an explosion of Android tablet apps like that seen with the iPad but the Honeycomb-optimized apps remain in the low hundreds. The answer, it turns out, is not that simple. The main contributing factors appear to be the low demand for Honeycomb tablets and the difficulty in discovering Honeycomb-optimized apps in the Market. Hopefully, this will be rectified in the near future."

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  1. Price, polish, brand! by Aceticon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The Honeycomb tablets currently in the market are expensive, many even more expensive than an iPad and yet less polished.

    Trying to break into a market against a well-established player, when your product is more expensive, has less marketing and is lower in quality isn't going to work

    I myself have some really nice ideas for Honeycomb, tablet optimized apps but am holding off from developing them until the platform gets some traction.

    It might very well be that Honeycomb is this beautiful, hard-working, honey-making bee of the mobile OS world, but if hardware makers persist in sticking it on top of turds and hopping it sells, Apple is going to dominate the tablet market for the next 20 years.