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Re:The Android tablet problem - Marco Arment by WoundedMarlin on Friday June 17, 2011 @02:22AM (#2664567)
I think the biggest problem that Android (Honeycomb) is having is that Google totally rebuilt the OS for the tablet. Where as apple did not make many changes to there iOS and the developers had to make very few changes to their apps code to make it run on the iPad. Android (Honeycomb) will be fine it is just taking developers longer to fix the code to run with all the new features that Honeycomb has to offer.
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Re:The Android tablet problem - Marco Arment by cageface on Friday June 17, 2011 @03:29AM (#2664698)
The really good iPad apps have interfaces that were designed for the iPad. Rethinking an interface for a completely different form factor is a lot more work that twiddling with enough APIs to get your code running. Just ask the people complaining now about Android phone apps stretched to fit a tablet screen.
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Re:The Android tablet problem - Marco Arment by bad_user on Friday June 17, 2011 @03:03AM (#2664633) 

     Google totally rebuilt the OS for the tablet
No they didn't.

And about compatibility, Android 3.x does have new features (as one would expect from a new version, you know), but some of those features got backported in what they call the Android Compatibility package.

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