I don't buy this line of argument regarding app design. Next time you fire up your image editing program on a PC resize the window to 90%, 70%, 50%, 30%. Try a

I don't buy this line of argument regarding app design. Next time you fire up your image editing program on a PC resize the window to 90%, 70%, 50%, 30%. Try and use your application. At the smaller windows sizes you just can't. There is simply not enough real estate to accommodate the UI. Desktop applications have simply assumed you have a certain amount of real estate at some given level of technology. Anything better is usually just gravy since you have everything you need on your screen. We know simply resizing does not work. Just try an iPhone app on an iPad at 2x. I'd wager the points where you have to reconsider the UI are much closer together at small sizes. An extra half inch in screen size could allow just one more icon and make your app that little bit nicer to use. Even if you fix the hardware compatibility problem (they solved it for PCs) it's still going to suck without new ways to design apps.