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Not to mention that the hardware available to the iPad is probably going to be considerably better than the hardware on an iPhone. All those iPhone developers

by zaphar 17y ago

Not to mention that the hardware available to the iPad is probably going to be considerably better than the hardware on an iPhone. All those iPhone developers who previously only had to worry about the iPhone and iPod touch now have a third to add to the mix. And as more versions of each get released the landscape gets worse and worse. Android may have come out of the gate with a more difficult landscape but the App Store will not always be immune either.

gte910h 17y ago
While CPU power differences could make a big issues, especially for games, I still say apple's fixed layout system is stronger. You load up a new screen with a call that specifies the layout file (called a XIB) on iPhone. You can then feasibly have different layouts for iPad and for 320x480 phones. I could easily support 5 of those. With a layout manager, you have to LOOK to see if it turned out well on the platforms (of which there are already 5-8 you care about, many times more than iphone). What android needs, is a gui builder.