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[blamblam]

holy monkey-lovin' armadillos, author! lay off the freakin' parantheses! reading this article, it's like a hyperactive two year old trying to get your attention every three seconds and distract you and interrupt your sentences and stick hot pokers in your brain!

[JuanRiossk7s]

Common man, do you have some brains? Honeycomb has multitasking why would I want every single app to take the whole screen? If they can use as much as needed for the task at hand leave the rest real state to other apps to do the same.
Tablets apps are useless unless you have an app that needs the whole screen there is no point on forcing an app to take more space than it needs that is retarded and marketing ploy.

[dk3d]

>>All Android 2.x apps will run on Android 3.x,<<

Not true. I brought an Acer Iconia 500 with Honeycomb and probably 50% of the "android" or 2.x apps simply failed to load, crashed, or otherwise said it was the wrong OS.

Totally frustrating.

By comparison, 100% of my iPhone apps worked on the iPad2 that I brought home.

As a side note, I returned both tablets. The Acer because the screen grid lines drove me nuts and all the crashing (open facebook, google maps crashes, open a browser, facebook crashes).

I returned the Ipad2 because it was an expensive toy and I think I expected too much. If I went out for a break at work (or lunch or whatever) I had the choice of bringing my iPhone or iPad (or both of course) and realized after 2 days of leaving the iPad behind on my desk I realized it was an inconvenient toy.

[karthiq]

blamblam, on 27 June 2011 - 06:16 PM, said:

holy monkey-lovin' armadillos, author! lay off the freakin' parantheses! reading this article, it's like a hyperactive two year old trying to get your attention every three seconds and distract you and interrupt your sentences and stick hot pokers in your brain!

Would you have reacted the same way if this was an article pointing out something which is lacking in ios or idevices?

Just asking.

[MeemPeriob03w]

There's no way developers would be able to profit developing for Android like they would iOS. Even the most successful developers mentioned there's no scalability between Androids phone and tablet software. Developers want consistency, so why waste your business model there.

There's no way developers would be able to profit developing for Android like they would iOS. Even the most successful developers mentioned there's no scalability between Androids phone and tablet software. Developers want consistency, so why waste your business model there.

[MeemPeriob03w]

There's no way developers would be able to profit developing for Android like they would iOS. Even the most successful developers mentioned there's no scalability between Androids phone and tablet software. Developers want consistency, so why waste your business model there.

[MeemPeriob03w]

Fix this blog site. Why is pasting my comment twice? This is pretty ridiculous

[abgenxi1vz]

According to the pundits, HP is coming to market "too late" to make an impact and with too few apps to be viable.

This sounds kinda funny to me because HP have built a unified dev framework for webOS called Enyo that allows scalability from scratch.

HP TouchPad will be launching with more native tablet apps than Android and the rate of production will be faster because each application port will scale. In addition, HP has serious and consistent worldwide distribution lined up and webOS coming to tens of millions of PCs and notebooks next year.

In this marathon, webOS has a good shot at the #2 position in the next 18-24 months, no matter what detractors say.

[melgross]

dk3d, on 27 June 2011 - 06:54 PM, said:

>>All Android 2.x apps will run on Android 3.x,<<

Not true. I brought an Acer Iconia 500 with Honeycomb and probably 50% of the "android" or 2.x apps simply failed to load, crashed, or otherwise said it was the wrong OS.

Totally frustrating.

By comparison, 100% of my iPhone apps worked on the iPad2 that I brought home.

As a side note, I returned both tablets. The Acer because the screen grid lines drove me nuts and all the crashing (open facebook, google maps crashes, open a browser, facebook crashes).

I returned the Ipad2 because it was an expensive toy and I think I expected too much. If I went out for a break at work (or lunch or whatever) I had the choice of bringing my iPhone or iPad (or both of course) and realized after 2 days of leaving the iPad behind on my desk I realized it was an inconvenient toy.

You were believable until you felt you had to say the iPad2 was a toy-twice. Interesting as more than half are being bought by business and governments.

[melgross]

abgenxi1vz, on 28 June 2011 - 12:56 PM, said:

According to the pundits, HP is coming to market "too late" to make an impact and with too few apps to be viable.

This sounds kinda funny to me because HP have built a unified dev framework for webOS called Enyo that allows scalability from scratch.

HP TouchPad will be launching with more native tablet apps than Android and the rate of production will be faster because each application port will scale. In addition, HP has serious and consistent worldwide distribution lined up and webOS coming to tens of millions of PCs and notebooks next year.

In this marathon, webOS has a good shot at the #2 position in the next 18-24 months, no matter what detractors say.

I don't know if it will sell that well, but I'm rooting for it.

[tubaloth]

I agree with what was said about the Market Place. One of the down sides in any Android Tablet review is lack of apps. I always found that funny to be a downside for a product. But I went out to download as much as I could. The problem is I don't want to PAY For any app if I don't know it will work. Some reviews help on some of the apps, because some people have tried them. In the end, I don't want to pay money on a game unless I know its going to work on my Asus Transformer. I'm actually waiting for Amazon to come out with a version of there app store just for Tablets. But they are probably waiting for their own tablet to come out. I also think Honeycomb Tablet Makers need to be a little more forth coming with sales data. I think the market is their now for HC Tablets, but nobody knows how big that is. I would be interesting in knowing how many games are being sold on that Tegra Nvida Website.

[DanielStutzmansexx]

melgross, on 29 June 2011 - 06:43 AM, said:

dk3d, on 27 June 2011 - 06:54 PM, said:

>>All Android 2.x apps will run on Android 3.x,<<

Not true. I brought an Acer Iconia 500 with Honeycomb and probably 50% of the "android" or 2.x apps simply failed to load, crashed, or otherwise said it was the wrong OS.

Totally frustrating.

By comparison, 100% of my iPhone apps worked on the iPad2 that I brought home.

As a side note, I returned both tablets. The Acer because the screen grid lines drove me nuts and all the crashing (open facebook, google maps crashes, open a browser, facebook crashes).

I returned the Ipad2 because it was an expensive toy and I think I expected too much. If I went out for a break at work (or lunch or whatever) I had the choice of bringing my iPhone or iPad (or both of course) and realized after 2 days of leaving the iPad behind on my desk I realized it was an inconvenient toy.

You were believable until you felt you had to say the iPad2 was a toy-twice. Interesting as more than half are being bought by business and governments.

So someone's personal opinion isn't believable because they stated something you don't believe.

[nonseq]

DanielStutzmansexx, on 29 June 2011 - 07:38 AM, said:

melgross, on 29 June 2011 - 06:43 AM, said:

dk3d, on 27 June 2011 - 06:54 PM, said:

>>All Android 2.x apps will run on Android 3.x,<<

Not true. I brought an Acer Iconia 500 with Honeycomb and probably 50% of the "android" or 2.x apps simply failed to load, crashed, or otherwise said it was the wrong OS.

Totally frustrating.

By comparison, 100% of my iPhone apps worked on the iPad2 that I brought home.

As a side note, I returned both tablets. The Acer because the screen grid lines drove me nuts and all the crashing (open facebook, google maps crashes, open a browser, facebook crashes).

I returned the Ipad2 because it was an expensive toy and I think I expected too much. If I went out for a break at work (or lunch or whatever) I had the choice of bringing my iPhone or iPad (or both of course) and realized after 2 days of leaving the iPad behind on my desk I realized it was an inconvenient toy.

You were believable until you felt you had to say the iPad2 was a toy-twice. Interesting as more than half are being bought by business and governments.

So someone's personal opinion isn't believable because they stated something you don't believe.

Daniel aren't you making most of your income from those "toys?" Does that make you a toy maker? Perhaps the objection was the incipid "toy" comment.

[BenjaminTangjxpr]

Sounds like more reason to 'wait and see' Gee, always wondered why iPads fly off the shelves but none of the two dozen or so tablets running Android.

People use to sneer at Microsoft for pushing half-baked goods (Windows really wasn't usable until version 3.1). Ditto for Google.

And no, I am not an Apple fanboy. I sold my iPad (loved the pad itself but detested the iTunes synching).

[Toulinwoek]

Google seems to have overloaded their cannon on this one. They were saying how the Android app market was going to explode with the release of Honeycomb. Well, that hasn't exactly happened. There are a lot more tablet-optimized apps than there were 4 months ago, but nothing that can be called an explosion.

I think hardware manufacturers, afraid to admit how poorly they're doing against the iPad, are not coming forth with sales data, and maybe some developers are reluctant to spend time writing apps if no one's going to need them.

Personally, I don't think any single Android tablet is going to outsell the iPad any time soon, and I doubt if all of them together will. But I think there is still enough non-iPad market to sustain them all, so they should just let it be known how many they are selling. Maybe (just maybe) this will motivate the developers.

This post has been edited by Toulinwoek: 29 June 2011 - 10:05 AM