Am I reading this right? You're saying there's a purposeful degradation of user experience in order to prevent software vendors from releasing a single version of the application that works on both devices and to make consumers pay twice if they want to experience it in both places?
Alexey ________________________________ From: Christopher Miles <[email protected]> To: javaposse <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, January 31, 2011 10:51:48 AM Subject: Re: [The Java Posse] Re: LOL! Tor is so Corporate I haven't heard this from any official source, but I belive it's to encourage developers to produce an iPad specific version of their application. Likely, there's also the extra benefit that people will pay a little extra for an iPad version even if they've already bought the iPhone version because it will look nicer. -- Miles Excerpts from phil swenson's message of Mon Jan 31 10:25:47 -0500 2011: > Could someone explain why the iPad scales up the "2x" iphone apps? It is > scaling a 480x320 app, not just using the 960x640 resolution like the iPhone > 4 does. LAME > > BTW. I never install iPhone apps on the iPad. I did a couple times and it's > terrible. So much for Apple's perfection when it comes to this issue. > > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:37 PM, kevin.hooke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The comment in the Holiday special about 'no-one uses the 2x iPhone > > apps on an iPad. No-one. No-one' I thought was kind of odd. We just > > got an iPad this month and about half of apps we've downloaded, free > > and purchased, have been iPhone apps and have had the 2x in in the > > bottom corner, and yes, they look crappy, pixelated and fuzzy when > > zoomed to fit the screen.... > > > > > > On Jan 18, 2:06 pm, "Joe Nuxoll (Java Posse)" <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > Just to be clear Tor (in a public forum), my fascination was mostly > > > about the fact that you were *gushing* about how much you loved your > > > iPad and iPhone until just very recently. Now you're "ready to sell > > > the iPad" and are in awe of your new Nexus S. From my perspective - > > > that's great! I don't have stock in Apple, and hopefully that bodes > > > well for the level of competition that will beget more awesome user > > > experience for everyone. > > > > > > - Joe > > > > > > On Jan 18, 8:08 am, Tor Norbye <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Jan 17, 7:57 am, "[email protected]" > > > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Tor is probably my favourite member of the posse but it's funny to > > see > > > > > him so pro google (and Android) in particular. > > > > > > > > He makes a nice counter balance to Joe's Apple fanboyism. > > > > > > > I'm sorry if I sound "corporate" - but it's definitely not a > > > > coincidence that I speak passionately about the things I work on -- > > > > that's *why* I chose to work on them! Google is a company I've been a > > > > fan of for a long time, so if I sound like a fanboy that's not > > > > "because I work there", I "work there because of it". > > > > > > > -- Tor > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "The Java Posse" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > >[email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
