Android Honeycomb tablets are now on store shelves and vendor websites. Six months from Honeycomb’s release, tablet makers have finally optimized their hardware to fit the new made-for-tablets OS version to their larger-than-smartphone screens. But where are the apps? Buyers of shiny new 8- and 10-inch touchscreen Android tablets suffer from a glaring lack of Android 3.0 — aka “Honeycomb” — apps specifically designed to use the increased functionality of the latest tablet-sized OS. Consumers now enjoy a growing number of tablet choices other than the iPad.
Actually, Android powers about a third of tablets sold today, versus a little under two-thirds for iOS. Not sure I'd call that "failing", but your opinion may vary.
Why is it that I constantly see LinuxInsider flaming Android.
Is it because google is using Linux to do its thing with Android? and linux just keeps failing as a desktop replacement or even on tablets?
Android/Honeycomb are NOT like iOS / ipad are.. A LOT of apps that work on Android, expand to the full screen of Honeycomb, etc. Unlike iOS where you have to have a separate version for the phone and tablet. There are ALREADY LOTS of tablet apps available with more added daily at a rapid pace. The major apps people use daily are there already - Amazon's Kindle, Pulse, Tweetdeck, Playon, Google Talk w/ Video chat, Springpad, Evernote, Zinio, etc.
I owned the 1st iPAD when it came out, and it was just as long (actually longer) for iPAD apps to show up as it has been for 1st Generation Honeycomb apps.
Another bonus with Honeycomb/Android - you can already access most websites content including flash sites with the honeycomb tablets browser, UNLIKE the ipad and ipad2 which DEPEND EXCLUSIVELY on apps, which is how apple wants it - so they get their 30%...
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Android Apps and the Honeycomb Holdup
Posted by: Jack M. Germain July 26, 2011 05:00 AMAndroid Honeycomb tablets are now on store shelves and vendor websites. Six months from Honeycomb’s release, tablet makers have finally optimized their hardware to fit the new made-for-tablets OS version to their larger-than-smartphone screens. But where are the apps? Buyers of shiny new 8- and 10-inch touchscreen Android tablets suffer from a glaring lack of Android 3.0 — aka “Honeycomb” — apps specifically designed to use the increased functionality of the latest tablet-sized OS. Consumers now enjoy a growing number of tablet choices other than the iPad.
Is it because google is using Linux to do its thing with Android? and linux just keeps failing as a desktop replacement or even on tablets?
Android/Honeycomb are NOT like iOS / ipad are.. A LOT of apps that work on Android, expand to the full screen of Honeycomb, etc. Unlike iOS where you have to have a separate version for the phone and tablet. There are ALREADY LOTS of tablet apps available with more added daily at a rapid pace. The major apps people use daily are there already - Amazon's Kindle, Pulse, Tweetdeck, Playon, Google Talk w/ Video chat, Springpad, Evernote, Zinio, etc.
I owned the 1st iPAD when it came out, and it was just as long (actually longer) for iPAD apps to show up as it has been for 1st Generation Honeycomb apps.
Another bonus with Honeycomb/Android - you can already access most websites content including flash sites with the honeycomb tablets browser, UNLIKE the ipad and ipad2 which DEPEND EXCLUSIVELY on apps, which is how apple wants it - so they get their 30%...