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iPad is the iOS sideshow in sale numbers by far -- no reason to prioritize it. And, more cynical, using the parent comment's reasoning: iPad _is_ a competitor t
by bla2 9y ago
iPad is the iOS sideshow in sale numbers by far -- no reason to prioritize it. And, more cynical, using the parent comment's reasoning: iPad _is_ a competitor to Google's Chrome OS in education, so maybe they don't want it to work too well.
- chx 9y agoCan you imagine being the programmer on that project?
- refulgentis 9y agoYeah, it would totally suck to have strangers attacking your ethics instead of considering the small tap targets on iPad minis.
- uiri 9y agoIt is probably based on browser user-agent detection that doesn't distinguish between iPhone/iPod Touch iOS Safari and iPad iOS Safari. It is not necessarily an active act of malice nor even anything more than "cleaning up" some of the user agent code.
- ryanlol 9y agoThis seems extraordinarily unlikely, google pays a lot of attention to user agents.
- bla2 9y agoI don't think they'll tell engineers to make the experience bad. I used to work for Google, and it doesn't strike me as the place where that would work. More likely is that there just isn't anyone responsible for this; whether that's due to iPad being too small to be worth the opportunity cost of putting someone one it, or due to the more cynical interpretation.
- mgkimsal 9y ago> no reason to prioritize it no reason to explicit fuck it up, except... oh yeah, competitor to your own tablets.