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October 10, 2013 10:50 pm GMT
In what is a poignant statement about the state of Android tablet apps, Twitter has announced the first tablet-optimized version for the platform. It’s been 3 years since the iPad hit and Android tablets have blown up in the meantime, but this is the first time they’re being served with a real app. Twitter says that the app is rolling out on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 first but will roll out to other Android tablets by the end of the year. Twitter says that it’s included some Samsung-specific features like multi-screen view for the in-app browser, a Twitter widget for the home screen that allows basic twitter actions and shows breaking news customized to countries. There’s also a ‘tweet illustration’ feature that lets you doodle on pictures with Samsung’s ‘S-Pen’. One of the strengths of the Android platform is that most of its phone apps will run just fine on tablets, due to flexible layouts and encouragement early on from Google to build them that way. But since the early days of Android, the tablet market has exploded and Google has changed its tune. It has begun encouraging developers to produce tablet-specific layouts for their apps, providing for better experiences on larger screens. Much of the impetus for this is the fact that there are an incredibly small number of apps on Android that are designed witha tablet in mind. On Apple’s iPad, there are thousands. Tim Cook’s Challenge Apple CEO Tim Cook has specifically called out the Twitter app for Android before and on a Samsung tablet no less. At the iPad event last year, Cook showed a slide of the Twitter app on Android and said “It kind of looks like a blown-up smartphone app, because thats exactly what it is. Compare that to Twitter on iPad.” Ironically, at the time, Twitter’s iPad app was a unique flower with a cool card-based interface. These days it looks a lot more like its iPhone app and website. During a Businessweek interview earlier this year, Cook had this to say about the state of Android tablet apps: I think if I bought [an Android tablet] and used it, and I thought that was a tablet experience, Im not sure I would ever buy another tablet. The responsiveness isnt there. The basic touch is really off. The app experience is a stretched-out smartphone kind of experience. Its not an
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Twitter Launches An Android Tablet Optimized App For The First Time - On One Tablet
In what is a poignant statement about the state of Android tablet apps, Twitter has announced the first tablet-optimized version for the platform. It’s been 3 years since the iPad hit and Android tablets have blown up in the meantime, but this is the first time they’re being served with a real app. Twitter says that the app is rolling out on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 first but will roll out to other Android tablets by the end of the year. Twitter says that it’s included some Samsung-specific features like multi-screen view for the in-app browser, a Twitter widget for the home screen that allows basic twitter actions and shows breaking news customized to countries. There’s also a ‘tweet illustration’ feature that lets you doodle on pictures with Samsung’s ‘S-Pen’. One of the strengths of the Android platform is that most of its phone apps will run just fine on tablets, due to flexible layouts and encouragement early on from Google to build them that way. But since the early days of Android, the tablet market has exploded and Google has changed its tune. It has begun encouraging developers to produce tablet-specific layouts for their apps, providing for better experiences on larger screens. Much of the impetus for this is the fact that there are an incredibly small number of apps on Android that are designed witha tablet in mind. On Apple’s iPad, there are thousands. Tim Cook’s Challenge Apple CEO Tim Cook has specifically called out the Twitter app for Android before and on a Samsung tablet no less. At the iPad event last year, Cook showed a slide of the Twitter app on Android and said “It kind of looks like a blown-up smartphone app, because thats exactly what it is. Compare that to Twitter on iPad.” Ironically, at the time, Twitter’s iPad app was a unique flower with a cool card-based interface. These days it looks a lot more like its iPhone app and website. During a Businessweek interview earlier this year, Cook had this to say about the state of Android tablet apps: I think if I bought [an Android tablet] and used it, and I thought that was a tablet experience, Im not sure I would ever buy another tablet. The responsiveness isnt there. The basic touch is really off. The app experience is a stretched-out smartphone kind of experience. Its not anOriginal Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/2RqsXEKbJko/
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