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> No iPad version I really wonder why Google does this. It took them months to release the iPad version of their Maps app, with very few UI differences. There'
by TillE 13y ago
> No iPad version
I really wonder why Google does this. It took them months to release the iPad version of their Maps app, with very few UI differences. There's something broken about that workflow.
Not quite as bad as the oft-promised Google Drive for Linux, but still.
- nobodyshere 13y agoI believe they rely on metrics that they get from android devices where probably tablets aren't that popular among users of such services.
- smackfu 13y agoWeb page versions of stuff tend to work better on an iPad than on an iPhone. Facebook didn't have an iPad app for the longest time.
- untog 13y agoIncentive? Do people use Maps and Music on iPad to the extent that they do on iPhone? Personally, I only really use both when I'm on the move - I'm very unlikely to pull out a tablet at that point. This applies a lot more to Maps than it does to Music, of course.
- gress 13y agoThey have to support the iPhone because it's almost half the smartphone users in the US. They don't need to support the iPad because they don't think of it as an important platform.