We reached peak Tablet usability somewhere around 4.3&#x2F;4.4. At this point Android actually seemed to <i>use</i> some of that landscape screen space to do things like have the quick-settings menu drop down on the right-hand side of the screen, and have the notifications bar drop down from the left-hand side.<p>Then Google decided to merge the two, and since then it&#x27;s been back to the &quot;tablet is giant phone&quot; interface.<p>Ars Technica has done several articles on Google&#x27;s failure to follow its own design examples when reviewing tablets:
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