The Tumblr team has recently revamped the mobile layout for their micro blogging social network which should please users boasting one of two smartphones.
The new layout makes it easier for users viewing their Tumblr blog upon an iOS or Android device to not only create content, but also easily alter settings within their dashboards.
While Tumblr is also planning on making their blogs viewable for Blackberry fans, the company doesn’t seem to have an immediate interest in making their sites mobile friendly for users carrying Windows Phone 7, Nokia or even webOS devices.
The lack of interest beyond Blackberry, iOS and Android could also signal that the startup has no immediate plans to introduce native apps upon other smartphones, leaving the task to third party developers to fill in the gap (often at a premium).
Although its understandable why Tumblr isn’t committing to other platforms (as they are busy trying to keep their servers up in response to their tremendous growth), hopefully the company will in the future consider taking an agnostic approach to smartphones, something their rival WordPress has done.
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Food for thought: Can you fault a company for not publicly saying they are intending on developing for those other phones without knowing the volume of traffic those “other” phones hold? It it’s significantly less than the volume of their Android, iPhone and Blackberry traffic would it be worth it to their VC’s or board that they spend/”waste” their development time on it?