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"People thought Apple will revolutionize tablets, but they got an iPad. But to make a revolutionary tablet Apple just needed to increase the size of the iPhone.

• stcredzero 17y ago
  Increasing screen real-estate has a non-linear effect on lots of UIs.
  • sumeeta 17y ago
    Example?
    • jacabado 17y ago
      I am not sure, and nobody can be, but isn't the web an example? When the most common resolution was 800x600 the graphical interface patterns were really bleh.
      • jraines 17y ago
        This is a good point. Sorry, I accidentally downvoted you while trying to upvote on my G1. Kind of ironic given the discussion.
      • wmf 17y ago
        IMO Web pages wider than 800px generally use the extra space for junk or whitespace.
        • jacabado 17y ago
          That's true and probably the reason why interfaces improved so much. Whitespaces are a design element and what you call junk is somebody business need. The fact that the blank canvas got bigger on the web allowed to much better interface patterns, or maybe it was just a question of maturity. But I guess the most interesting discussion is not the visual part but the utilization scenarios of the Ipad. I'm not sold on it as a mobile device, but how many people use a laptop as a mobile device? Mobile phones are the first truly mobile devices. I'm just starting to notice Iphone owners on the middle of a crowd trying to text somebody, you have to hold it closer to the horizontal plane to have better accuracy making it less natural. I'm not sold on the Ipad as a mobile device, in the mobile phones sense, but I also don't think its success depends on it.
        • danudey 17y ago
          Putting the junk in the extra space means it's not clogging up the content area (except on truly awful websites). It means they can include all the extra crap no one really wants, while still keeping the site usable.
    • wmf 17y ago
      All the iPad apps that aren't feasible on the iPhone, like iWork or OmniGraffle.