That was for tablets, right? I'm not surprised considering how shitty the Android tablets have been.
But developers are targeting the phones first, tablets second, because a phone is always in your pocket, always online and everybody needs a phone. In December Google reported 700,000 activations per day. In 2010 alone there were 67 millions of Android devices sold, with the total number of mobile phones sold being measured in the hundreds of millions.
So Kindle Fire does great as far as tablets go, but it can't compete in numbers with Android phones and Android phones are targeted first, unless you're talking about stuff like interactive eBooks that really need the bigger screen.
I'm also seeing this happening on iPhones and iPads. Unless an app really needs the bigger screen, then the iPad is a second class citizen to the iPhone.
That's a good point about phones leading the way. I'm guessing that in large part that's because the number of phones (iPhones and Android) dwarfs the number of tablets. I'm always slightly surprised at the number of apps that don't work well on the iPad but it makes sense that you wouldn't put your energy there, at least not in the first instance.
But for those applications that do want to develop a tablet app, it's still a big call to exclude the single biggest selling Android tablet out there (which is probably the Fire).
But developers are targeting the phones first, tablets second, because a phone is always in your pocket, always online and everybody needs a phone. In December Google reported 700,000 activations per day. In 2010 alone there were 67 millions of Android devices sold, with the total number of mobile phones sold being measured in the hundreds of millions.
So Kindle Fire does great as far as tablets go, but it can't compete in numbers with Android phones and Android phones are targeted first, unless you're talking about stuff like interactive eBooks that really need the bigger screen.
I'm also seeing this happening on iPhones and iPads. Unless an app really needs the bigger screen, then the iPad is a second class citizen to the iPhone.