Is iOS 10 proof that we need an iPad specific iOS?

[TurboPGT!]

Let me explain where I'm coming from on this one. We've had several versions of iOS. None of them have done a huge amount for the iPad. It has always looked like a stretched out iPhone screen. But they're pushing it as a laptop replacement now. And it's becoming obvious to me that putting the UI/UX in the same hands as the people who make the one for the phone will just lead to phone first and iPad maybe sometime down the road.

The iPad needs a group of people who wake up in the morning and their only job is to make the iPad the greatest it can possibly be from a software perspective.

I suppose I just don't see the automatic leap to the "stretched iPhone UI" being something bad for iPad.

 

[Michael Goff]

I suppose I just don't see the automatic leap to the "stretched iPhone UI" being something bad for iPad.

I just think it's a waste of valuable screen real estate.

 

[ashindnile]

Most definitely is a waste of real estate. And on the Pro models, it's a waste of horsepower too.

 

[stooovie]

Consistency is not the end-all, be-all principle. iPad has split view and sidebar in Mail. Inconsistent with iPhone? Yes! Useful for iPad? Definitely!