

To counter both these, you may want to consider using KindleFree. The Kindle Fire series also doesn’t come with traditional Google Apps (including Play Store), even though the device can operate these. Now, let’s face it – the Amazon home screen pretty much sucks, and the worst part is that you cannot really change it unless you intend to modify your device. This, in particular, applies to the Barnes & Noble Nook, and the Kindle Fire lineup from Amazon. This also opened doors for certain manufacturers to impose their own skins upon Android, giving it a completely unique look. With Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0), the gap between separate Android versions (and interfaces, for that matter) for smartphones and tablets was bridged, allowing users to take advantage of the larger screen real-estate on tablets under the same, unified operating system.

Even though competitive manufacturers jumped onto the bandwagon with their similar Android based offerings, even today, the iOS App Store sports a much larger number of tablet-optimized apps in comparison to Google Play Store.Īndroid tablets have come a long way since their inception, evolving into a much varying platform than the convention to which iOS has stuck with since the beginning. Not only did they make it more accessible by selling the iPad at a price point that was agreeable to the masses, but the support from the Cupertino giant’s iTunes App Store with its massive number of iPad specific apps also helped the device’s popularity. It’s true that Apple made tablets – portable computers with a slate design – a mainstream gadget with their iPad, even though there existed a lot of similar devices before that.
