After presenting the economic results of Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), In the first quarter of 2013 before investors and specialized press, the CEO of the company, Tim Cook has referred to its supremacy in applications optimized for tablets. Right now in the App Store there is 350.000 iPad optimized apps and has classified the offer of the competitors as insufficient and reduced.
Without mentioning Android, which every day seems more Voldemort for the executives of Cupertino, has quantified the offer of the platform in applications optimized for tablets in just a few hundred. Here Cook refers to the Play Store section which offers us almost 100 applications optimized for tablets and which is clearly insufficient. Actually, there are many more, what happens is that there is no way to know if they are or not in advance with ease and the total number is unknown.
To support his argument he has made reference to that 95% of the world's 500 richest people use iPad and that 90% of the 500 most powerful companies as well.
The total number of applications for iOS is close to a million, so the figure of 350.000 is really impressive. Keep in mind that the iPhone is 3 years older than the iPad and that the number of users of both is incomparable.
Google opened that section of its tablet-optimized app store relatively recently, which Tim Cook scoffs at. However, he has taken the initiative and wants to fix it. First of all, a few months ago it provided developers with some guidelines of design of applications to create versions compatible with tablets. Recently a modification in console that developers use to upload the information of their applications before uploading them to Google Play and the possibility to upload photos of software running on 7-inch and 10-inch tablets. In fact, we can already see some.
It was advised on the Android developer blog that some Buyer app filtering system would appear soon in the Play Store.
If confirmed, Android users would benefit greatly and Cook's humorous appreciation would have less room.
Source: Tab times