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Originally Posted by DaleDe
You are ignoring the fact that there was no need for scalability. All the iPhones up to 2010 were the same scale and the iPad was released in 2010 so there was no need to scale. The introduction of the iPad was iOS5 which had some doubling capability to view iPhone apps but there were only two resolution devices available at the time. When there was a need then iOS6 was released with the products that needed scalability. They could have done it earlier since the technology was readily available but the need wasn't there. The first iPhone with a need was the iPhone 4 and the first iPad with a need was the iPad 3. It is hard, I think, to argue that Apple was hindered by this decision. Android, on the other hand release out of the box with a need for different sizes as it was intended to work on a wide variety of devices from different resolutions and sizes. How good it did is a different question.
Dale
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Hi Dale,
That is not being ignored. It's besides the point. As I mentioned in comment #79 above, this particular part of the discussion is not about whether scalability was needed prior to iOS6, but whether prior to that time it was even a practical consideration to build it in (if they wanted to) for most iOS6 developers. I contend it was not. jbjb is arguing it was.
It is related to what you are saying in that we have a chicken-and-egg scenario here. The lack of easy scalability in iOS prior to iOS6 may have been one of the primary reasons that new screen resolutions and sizes were limited back then.
--Pat