Do iPhone Apps Really Look Good on iPad’s Screen? (Mashable)

March 9, 2010 | iPHONE-Special

John Gruber of Daring Fireball has an interesting story about the absence of certain iPhone apps – Stocks, Calculator, Clock, Weather, Voice Memos – on the iPad. It seems that these apps, when scaled up to iPad’s bigger screen, simply didn’t look good enough to Steve Jobs, so he decided to scrap them. Writes Gruber: “Ends up that just blowing up iPhone apps to fill the iPad screen looks and …
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