I own a Galaxy Tablet and I love using the thing, I use it all the time at home for browsing, watching videos, music, etc. It's pretty much always with me while I'm at home.
However, one thing that was bugging me the other day was a thought I had while contemplating adding more advanced features to my apps for use on tablet devices. I write audio apps for Android, and I was thinking about new features I could add to my apps to make them more powerful for use in "live play", etc. But then I realized something: What is the point of it? I mean, if a musician wanted to have a portable device with some nice software that they could use live on stage, wouldn't they just be better off getting a tablet PC or a small notebook? Then they could readily grab any software, even open source free software, and use that as their DAW or live instrument. I'm just not seeing a good reason to develop a "deep" functional app for use on an android tablet when I'm wondering if it's really "duplicating" software that would be better run from a PC. A PC that would no doubt have much more power than the tablet ever would and could give better features in the software anyway. To me developing a fairly deep app for use on a phone is worth the time, since the phone is extremely portable and always with you, but for a tablet? Not so sure that's a worthy investment in time or not, especially since you have to do better optimizations since the tablet won't have as much capability as a PC would (less memory to work with, slower CPU, etc) I mean the only real advantage of a tablet is you can have a touch screen interface with multitouch, so for some apps, yes, this is a benefit. But for other apps that's not something that's a big deal. What's your guys's take on it? Is it worth trying to supply a "deep" app for a tablet when a PC variant is readily available (and laptops are cheaper than tablets anyway?) -niko -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
