Report: Android tablet app availability still trailing iPad
Android tablets may have come a long way over the last couple of years, but the app selection still can’t compare to Apple’s iPad, according to a new report.
Source: CanalysCanalys listed the top 50 iPad apps and whether they’re available for Android tablets. (Click to enlarge.)
To compare the two platforms, research firm Canalys made a list of the top 50 paid and free iPad apps in the U.S. version of Apple’s iOS App Store, based on aggregated daily rankings in the first half of this year. The firm then looked at how many of those apps are available for Android, along with how many are optimized for larger displays.
Canalys found that 30 percent of these top iPad apps were not available on Android. Another 18 percent were available, but not optimized for tablets. In other words, a little more than half of the most popular iPad apps are available as proper tablet apps for Android devices.
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