Think that's a key point about the iPad experience, if dev teams had been lazy and just blown up iPhone apps it'd lose a serious chunk of what makes the iPad great.
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iPad When the iPad was first announced in the year 2010 why
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That's how it was for me. I was using my gen 1 touch into the ground. And had no intention of giving it up, until I saw the ipad version of the same app. I suddenly saw the page/menu flipping as a huge time and energy waste. Course, I still held out for the mini!
Last February, I bought a Nexus 7 thinking it would be a nice iPad alternative, i was wrong. Like many have mentioned, there are just too many apps on the Android side that STILL as of today, have only a phone version and no tablet version.
It took me four months to get tired of that Nexus 7 and buy an actual iPad. I then bought a Retina Mini in December and since then, I have not touched that Nexus 7.
too me, nothing beats the iPad experience.
Agreed. The Nexus should be doing better but until they deliver an actual tablet experience it'll be niche..
It was an iPod Touch that just happened to have a 10' inch screen. Of course things are different now with all of the UI optimizations and the amount of third party accessories for it, but at launch it was limited. The iPad 2 with its cameras, slimmer profile, and iOS 4 pulled the iPad out of its niche market and into a mainstream cycle.