Comments on: Apple’s iPad app advantage over Android tablets continues to grow

By: Mico

Mico — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 11:11:35 +0000

iOS has bigger number of apps because for example you can’t even play avi or wmv movie with builtin player… You have to purchase apps to be able to do what android offers out of the box

By: Lava

Lava — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 03:48:01 +0000

The fact is that Apple’s customers put money where their mouths/beliefs are. They say they don’t care about Flash, then buy devices like the iPad where Flash support is completely absent.

On the other hand, Flash proponents keep claiming how important Flash support is for a tablet, yet no one seems to be lining up to buy them despite this “critical” advantage. And when it’s pointed out developers are also not building tablet-optimized apps, the argument is that you don’t need to because of Flash support, which somehow still results in no one buying Android tablets.

By: Lava

Lava — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 03:43:42 +0000

Oh right. Flash support is why Android tablets are selling like hotcakes. *rolls eyes*

No one cares about Flash support except the hardcore minority. The sales prove it.

By: Lava

Lava — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 03:41:48 +0000

The number of apps is “random?” Consider that every iPad app is purpose-built for the 9.7″ screen of the iPad. That shows developers are committed to supporting iPad. That is not random.

You know what Honeycomb has a few hundred apps after months on the market? Developers know, and can see, that they can’t make any money selling Honeycomb apps for Android tablets. That’s not random.

Claiming 500,000 activations per day without defining activations is far more “random” than actual real developer momentum.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 17:00:08 +0000

You’re absolutely right. Adobe’s Flash days are over. Steve Jobs singlehandedly wrote off any chance of Flash recovery with his very open and honest letter about Adobe’s ‘premiere’ product.

It’s funny to hear both sides of the argument, the former that it’s a sin that Flash content cannot be generated on iOS and the latter that states this does not matter. I feel that the latter are all but correct in their assumption, especially when they are backed up by one of the most prolific figures in technology.

By: HD Boy

HD Boy — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 16:23:59 +0000

“…When you have a browser that supports flash, a lot of apps become redundant…”

By all accounts, Flash performance on tablets and cell phones remains mediocre at best, terrible at worst. It’s been four years since the first iPhone arrived and Adobe still has not been able to fix this problem. Some of the best Flash designers have given up on Flash entirely — because few clients want to use it. By now, it should be evident (even to blind Apple skeptics) that Adobe can’t fix this. Flash is dead and the “Flash on mobile devices program” is just a sideshow that Adobe is using to buy time until the company has new HTML5 Web development products to sell.

By: htkirk

htkirk — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 23:04:41 +0000

You have to credit Apple with creating a UI experience that models for developers good app construction combined with the App policing of their store that helps create a quality user experience.
Of course, it’s surely possible to do all this without the Apple overhead, but often the Apple ecosystem creates an engaging user experience.
And the quality user experience always drives adoption.

I will not be surprised to see the metrics run similarly for the foreseeable future.

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By: Clarke

Clarke — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:27:39 +0000

Apple tablets REQUIRE more apps because it’s the ONLY way to access a lot of mobile content on Apple tablets. When you have a browser that supports flash, a lot of apps become redundant.

By: PD

PD — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:59:07 +0000

Your observation is correct. But to define it differently, Google is only strong in the under-$100 “tablets.” When you pay $500 or more, you expect something more than an OS barely out of beta, a handful of apps, and manufacturers who don’t provide timely upgrades, or upgrades at all.

By: Tal

Tal — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:33:08 +0000

When you get to ~7″ and definitely 8″ and above Applications should look differently. They become much more desktop oriented than the hand-held small screen of 6″ and below.
Apple is investing on both domains, thus win the “in-door” tablet war. Google is on top of the “mobile” tablet war. See my other reply below for more.