While the Android platform is growing exponentially in the smartphone world, the tablet world is a different story. Android 3.0, the version optimized for tablets and known as Honeycomb, has few apps built for it. The number remains in the low hundreds, compared with the more than 100,000 iPad apps.

Computerworld looked into the reasons why. One of the problems is the larger display that Honeycomb was designed for: 8.9 inches or larger. Most tablets on the market sport 7-inch screens. Existing Android 2.x apps require a fair amount of work in order for them to render properly on larger devices. Developers who rely on third-party development platforms--usually for games--will not have this problem. But the larger screen can result in usability issues including pixelation and hard-to-read font sizes.

Other factors include difficulty in finding tablet apps in the Android Market and generally lower demand for Honeycomb tablets. Less than a million of them are estimated to have been sold. The Asus Eee Pad Transformer is by far the best-selling Honeycomb tablet but has sold only an estimated 400,000 to date.

For more:
- see this Computerworld article

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