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Thinking about doing Android-apps. And definitely thinking about exploiting the platforms (current) lack of tablet-optimised apps to make my own stand out.


Yeah, that's exactly where I am. The current lack of Android tablet apps is actually kind of exciting - we're in the calm before the storm, and anyone who puts out a kickass Android tablet app now is in a good position.


Great for a personal project. I would be all over that. Looking at it from a business perspective you can see why there are so few tablet apps in the android market. The amount of android tablets in users hands right now is small. You target a much larger percentage of the market by making an app for mobile handsets. While it might initially appear easy to make the app "just work" on both tablet and handset it is actually a considerable amount of development time (not to mention the often missed design and testing time needed as well).




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