The problem is see is that Google has been back and forth about their tablet commitment.
Back when Android 3.0 shipped, they introduced a single bar UI that could be compared to the Windows UI that has existed since Windows 95.
But then as later version of 3.x, and then 4.x was released, Google was introducing new restrictions and slowly rolling back the 3.0 UI.
For example with 3.0 you had one storage permission, "external". But come 3.1, they introdced another, "media". And only system apps could gain write permission to "media", unless the OEMs went in and changed up key files.
Thing about "media" was that it got applied to all removable storage. Be it SD slots or USB drives.
Then as 4.3 shipped, anything smaller than 8" got a "hybrid" UI that looked like a phone, but acted like a tablet in various ways. And with 4.4 the tablet UI that was introduced with 3.0 was fully replaced with the phone UI.
Odd thing is that with 6.0(.1) they seem to be moving somewhat back towards the 3.0 tablet UI. rather than having the 3 bottom bar buttons always centered, they split up and move to the bottom corners on larger tablets.
Back when Android 3.0 shipped, they introduced a single bar UI that could be compared to the Windows UI that has existed since Windows 95.
But then as later version of 3.x, and then 4.x was released, Google was introducing new restrictions and slowly rolling back the 3.0 UI.
For example with 3.0 you had one storage permission, "external". But come 3.1, they introdced another, "media". And only system apps could gain write permission to "media", unless the OEMs went in and changed up key files.
Thing about "media" was that it got applied to all removable storage. Be it SD slots or USB drives.
Then as 4.3 shipped, anything smaller than 8" got a "hybrid" UI that looked like a phone, but acted like a tablet in various ways. And with 4.4 the tablet UI that was introduced with 3.0 was fully replaced with the phone UI.
Odd thing is that with 6.0(.1) they seem to be moving somewhat back towards the 3.0 tablet UI. rather than having the 3 bottom bar buttons always centered, they split up and move to the bottom corners on larger tablets.