- cross-posted to:
- android@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- android@lemmy.world
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I wonder why the tablet app ecosystem on Android is so poor? Could it be that the Google has spent the best part of the last decade firmly pretending that Android tablets don’t exist, and people should just buy a Chromebook? Maybe that might have something to do with it?
Google:
Am I out of touch?
No, its’s the devs who are wrong!
ChromeOS does benefit from android apps for tablets. Chromebooks are next gen android tablets.
I agree with the first statement and firmly disagree with the second. Chromebooks are not inherently tablets and they inherently do allow multiple windows open at once without split screen, something that you basically never see with the tablet computing paradigm.
I didn’t get you. Tablets allow only to split screen (except for some launchers that allow a kind of tiling with multiple apps) while Chromebooks allow standard windows like any X/wayland DE, plus they allow tiling similar to tablets.
That’s what he said.
Finally. This is my favorite side effect of the advent of foldables - more people seeing the big tablet landscape mode of apps, and thus the fact that so many apps are incompatible coming to light.
- Also for desktop mode (Google’s DEX) for Pixel 8.
So…. Instagram?
I wouldn’t be surprised if the unsaid part is that they’re focused more on productivity apps than social apps, but I could be wrong. Also wouldn’t be surprised if Instagram doesn’t care about getting downranked, given its brand and market awareness somewhat transcends the need to appear in top-apps lists.
That’s a good point. We’ll see if they stick to it.
Firefox too
Google says this every few years and never follows through.
They push things briefly and then quickly abandon.
I don’t have an Android tablet, only iPad but I think this is a good move, do we know if Apple does the same?
