Android is expected to be a force to reckoned with in the tablet market and some of the upcoming Android-based tablets have already generated a fair amount of buzz. But Hugo Barra, director of products for mobile at Google, reckons Android, in its current avatar (Froyo), is not “optimized for use on tablets.”
The Samsung Galaxy Tab is being seen as an iPad rival, but to Barra it is nothing more than a supersized smartphone. “Android is an open platform. We saw at IFA 2010 all sorts of devices running Android, so it already running on tablets,” Barra told TechRadar.
“But the way Android Market works is it’s not going to be available on tablets that don’t allow devices and applications to run correctly. If you want Android market on that platform, the apps just wouldn’t run, [Froyo] is just not designed for that form factor.”
Point taken, but isn’t the iPad a supersized iPhone?
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