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Re:Why Google's Nexus 7 Tablet Is Hotter Than Apple's iPad by ConstantineXVI on Saturday July 21, 2012 @01:34PM (#4275277)
There's yet to be a real standard-bearer for Android tablets (the Transformer was close, but Asus alone didn't have the name recognition to push it) before the N7; so I'd expect the quality of tablet apps to start shaping up finally. ICS being on a respectable number of devices should help as well (since 3.0 was a "breaking" release).

IMHO, with the exception of games[0] and such, Android handles phone-tablet scaling much better than iOS does: the UI properly fills the screen, text isn't pixelated, and you aren't forced into a phone-size keyboard that doesn't even reach the screen edge.

[0] games are typically very specific wrt resolution, this isn't a tablet problem as much as an Android problem thanks to the wide variance in screen aspects.

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Re:Why Google's Nexus 7 Tablet Is Hotter Than Apple's iPad by Samuel_Michon on Saturday July 21, 2012 @04:38PM (#4275696)
“Android handles phone-tablet scaling much better than iOS does: the UI properly fills the screen, text isn't pixelated, and you aren't forced into a phone-size keyboard that doesn't even reach the screen edge.”

iOS has none of the problems you mentioned, so what exactly makes Android better than iOS in that regard?

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Re:Why Google's Nexus 7 Tablet Is Hotter Than Apple's iPad by ConstantineXVI on Saturday July 21, 2012 @04:47PM (#4275718)
Only on tablet-built apps. Foursquare (for example) only has a phone app.

on a N7: https://www.dropbox.com/s/vhy3ucrsmvtui76/Screenshot_2012-07...

and on an iPad 3: https://www.dropbox.com/s/gao416zu3ltikra/Photo%20Jul%2021%2...

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Re:Why Google's Nexus 7 Tablet Is Hotter Than Apple's iPad by Samuel_Michon on Saturday July 21, 2012 @07:03PM (#4275951)
Except the difference is: there are tens of thousands of iPad apps. How many Android apps are optimized for tablets?

(Silly example btw, who would use Foursquare on a 10" tablet?)

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Re:Why Google's Nexus 7 Tablet Is Hotter Than Apple's iPad by cageface on Sunday July 22, 2012 @01:11AM (#4276511)
The point is that there's less of a need for a separate tablet version of many Android apps than there is for iPhone/iPad since Android's scaling is much more sophisticated.
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Re:Why Google's Nexus 7 Tablet Is Hotter Than Apple's iPad by Zr40 on Sunday July 22, 2012 @03:43AM (#4276721)
iPad versions of apps aren't simply about scaling the UI. Take Twitter on Android tablets[0] for example, it's clear that merely enlarging the UI elements doesn't automatically result in an awesome UI on tablets.

Similarly, an UI design that works great on a phone (like with gestures from the side) might feel awkward on tablets.

[0]: http://www4.pcmag.com/media/images/285099-twitter-for-androi...

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Re:Why Google's Nexus 7 Tablet Is Hotter Than Apple's iPad by cageface on Sunday July 22, 2012 @10:27AM (#4277400)
I write ipad apps for a living. I understand how scaling works.

The point is that a scaled up android app will usually look a lot better than a scaled up iphone app.

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Re:Why Google's Nexus 7 Tablet Is Hotter Than Apple's iPad by mgcross on Saturday July 21, 2012 @10:35PM (#4276283)
iPhone apps render at 3:2 rather than reformat to fit the iPad's 4:3 screen.
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Re:Why Google's Nexus 7 Tablet Is Hotter Than Apple's iPad by entropy_ on Saturday July 21, 2012 @06:37PM (#4275888)
Even with games, if you use vector graphics and the aspect ratio is close-ish it can work pretty damn well. I tried out the phone version of Angry Birds on a Transformer at some point and if it weren't for the extra button on the bar allowing me to choose scaling modes I couldn't have known this wasn't targeted for tablets.
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