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Faterson · 10-25-2013, 10:32 AM

I'm not sure "tablet optimisation" is about pixels, Mike. To me, it's definitely about screen sizes. As you perhaps know, Apple displays tablet apps in the same way on iPad 2 and iPad 3+, although the latter has double (or quadruple) the amount of pixels, and even though iPhone 5+ offers a width of 1136 pixels compared to only 1024 pixels on iPad 2. Despite that, iPad 2 requests a tablet version of an app, and iPhone 5+ requests a phone version of the same app from the App Store.

The boundaries between "phone" and "tablet" apps are a lot more blurred on Android, and I'm convinced this is intentional: because there are relatively few tablet-optimised Android apps compared to iOS.

Also, you can "get away" with upscaling phone apps on small 7- or 8-inch tablets; it's not as conspicuous as it is on 10-inch tablets.

10-25-2013, 10:32 AM	#150
Faterson pokrývač škridiel Posts: 1,525 Karma: 3300000 Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Bratislava, Slovakia Device: 3iPad, SamsungNote & Tabs, 2OnyxBoox, Huawei 8″, PocketBook	I'm not sure "tablet optimisation" is about pixels, Mike. To me, it's definitely about screen sizes. As you perhaps know, Apple displays tablet apps in the same way on iPad 2 and iPad 3+, although the latter has double (or quadruple) the amount of pixels, and even though iPhone 5+ offers a width of 1136 pixels compared to only 1024 pixels on iPad 2. Despite that, iPad 2 requests a tablet version of an app, and iPhone 5+ requests a phone version of the same app from the App Store. The boundaries between "phone" and "tablet" apps are a lot more blurred on Android, and I'm convinced this is intentional: because there are relatively few tablet-optimised Android apps compared to iOS. Also, you can "get away" with upscaling phone apps on small 7- or 8-inch tablets; it's not as conspicuous as it is on 10-inch tablets. Last edited by Faterson; 10-25-2013 at 10:34 AM.