▲ 174 ▼ Google says it will start downranking non-tablet apps in the Play Store (arstechnica.com) submitted 3 years ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/android@lemdro.id 27 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago* (1 child) Google. "We gave you so many years. Not a single bite on the carrot. Here comes the stick. " permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] mikestevens@lemdro.id 2 points 3 years ago What carrot? A carrot is an incentive. Google didn't embrace the tablet format until very recently, in the grand scheme of things. They haven't offered devs any special deals that I'm aware of — say a revenue split from the play store or paying them to deliver a tablet version of their app — so they didn't incentivise devs to focus on Android tablets. iPads have dominated the market for so long, and remain a fairly predictable and consistent device to develop for, so... why would an app developer have poured time into an app for Android tablets in years past? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mikestevens@lemdro.id 2 points 3 years ago What carrot? A carrot is an incentive. Google didn't embrace the tablet format until very recently, in the grand scheme of things. They haven't offered devs any special deals that I'm aware of — say a revenue split from the play store or paying them to deliver a tablet version of their app — so they didn't incentivise devs to focus on Android tablets. iPads have dominated the market for so long, and remain a fairly predictable and consistent device to develop for, so... why would an app developer have poured time into an app for Android tablets in years past? permalink fedilink source parent