Apparently, many of the standard iPhone apps which were going to be including within the base install of the iPad operating system are no longer going to be included. This is due to the simple reason that when scaled up to the larger, higher resolution screen of the iPad, the iPhone apps are described as looking and feeling ‘weird’.
“Ends up that just blowing up iPhone apps to fill the iPad screen looks and feels weird, even if you use higher-resolution graphics so that nothing looks pixelated. So they were scrapped by you-know-who. Perhaps they’ll appear on the iPad in some re-imagined form this summer with OS 4.0, but when the iPad ships next month, there won’t be versions of these apps”
The iPhone apps, when scaled up to iPad’s larger screen, did not live up to Steve Jobs’ expectation, so due to this, they were scraped from the iPad’s release operating systems. Rumours exist that these apps will be added in a later update to the iPad’s operating system. This is quite important too, as the missing applications are simple and rather fundamental computing programs which I would personal expect to be in any modern general purpose device.
Missing Apps on the iPad
The list of applications scraped from the iPad’s operating system is as follows.
- Clock – Something as important as the clock application is missing?
- Calculator – Surely a similar app will be released to compensate the lack of a Calculator app?
- Weather – No doubt a good third-party whether app will take the place of this if no official weather application is released.
- Voice Memos – Seems it should still be in there? Why remove it?
- Stocks – Not fundamental to all users by any means, but should still be a nice default.
Questions for existing iPhone users:
- Why would Apple really want these applications removed other than merely that they look ‘weird’?
- If you had an iPad, would you want these applications to be there as standard? If so, which ones?
- Are these applications (on the iPhone) used regularly and important to you already?
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