• phillaholic
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    3810 months ago

    If Google can’t be bothered to create decent tablet apps for their own apps, why are any other devs going to do it?

    • Baby Shoggoth [she/her]
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      3810 months ago

      clearly you’ve never met a non-programmer with an app idea. so many random people have billion dollar ideas they’re willing to give you for free, and how dare you shrug that idea off as not worth your time, they’re giving you a lottery ticket they can’t turn in because they don’t “get” computers, but you do, so with just your skills and effort, and their genius idea you never could have thought of because you’re not an “idea person”, YOU could be a billionaire.

      • r00ty
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        810 months ago

        Yes, I’ve had one or two sales pitches in my time after admitting to being a software developer.

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      • phillaholic
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        210 months ago

        I may be conflating foldables with tablets which might not be fair. Most of my experience was that of poorly scaled first party apps and tons of wasted space. Looks like they fixed chrome though. Still, reading articles from late 2022 about Google finally getting their act together is saying a lot for a ten year old product.

          • phillaholic
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            210 months ago

            How about the pricing? Last I checked an equivalently priced Samsung tablet was pretty poor compared to the entry iPad. Apple may be subsidizing it with their pro models though.

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              • phillaholic
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                110 months ago

                Not sure what it typically goes for but from Samsung directly it’s $429 compared to the cheapest iPad which is $329. I’m not sure they are in a comparable class.

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      • phillaholic
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        110 months ago

        Given their market share it’s not that. They have no problem selling phones, but maybe they lucked into that more than anything.