fortunecat
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I agree... quite clearly Android has relegated tablets to the lowest priority... it's stagnated since Honeycomb... it isn't like that for Apple where apps that are entered to the Apple Store must work both with the phone and tablet... it seems like the Android protocol is simply work first withstand phone, tablet later if you have the time to do it... it's a chicken and egg situation where there aren't enough users for developers to spend resources to make their apps work with the plethora of tablets out there and so with too few optimized apps, there aren't users adopting Android tablets...
From the way I observe the activities in the various forums for different Android tablets, the focus of users seem to centre around entertainment and consumption of content, rather than productivity... even gaming is not really a focus, neither is productivity apps... it's really the lowest use - watching videos that seem to concern Android tablet users... Android tablets are a cheap way to watch videos on the move... not so many people it seems would buy a very expensive iPad just to watch videos... that probably explains the popularity of Xiaomi tablets and also the budget tablets from Lenovo or Huawei etc...
But with chrome OS tablets which will be able to run all Android apps coming up, I wonder if Google will encourage android developers to make customised apps for tablets once again