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Originally Posted by Graham
Bear in mind with the others, it's never been the elegance I was challenging. Just your assertion that we had to make do with mostly phone apps, rather than tablet ones, on Android.
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But that's the point. This notion that it's an amazing thing that Phone apps scale to fill a tablet screen makes them "tablet apps" just falls flat. I guess if one doesn't know better, hasn't experienced the better apps, it might not feel so bad.
But coming from my iPad, the Android apps on my Galaxy tab 10.1 are just terrible. I don't wish them to be. I'm not happy they are. And it's been a LONG time already. This isn't "oh, a new platform takes time". This is clearly: there is something wrong with the economics of Android development that's keeping software developers from supporting the large screens.
I was an early adopter of the iPad. You had to run phone apps at first. Yes, there were 3,000ish "made for iPad" apps at launch. But one really did have to run iPhone apps "blown up" on the iPad. It's a different poor experience than running the "designed for phone" android apps that "scale up". They are both poor experiences, IMHO.
However, that only lasted about 6 months for the iPad. It was a short term situation while the app developer community got to work taking advantage of the large real estate. Not just making the apps look better on a big screen, but giving them more functionality.
For me, for the dollars I spend, that's a big reason I'm happy with my iPad and not the Galaxy Tab. It's more important to me than widgets or the extra configurability of Android. It's more important than sideloading....to me. For my uses.