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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
Trust me, it's all about pixels, Apple made the resolution exactly double (or quadruple) for the retina screen so the tablet apps look the same on both - and the mini has, again, exactly the same resolution as the iPad.
Again with the iPhone the screen resolution exactly doubled for the iPhone 4, then they changed the height causing lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth amongst iPhone developers.
As android phones/tablets have vastly differing resolutions and form factors it gets trickier.
A 10-inch screen with a resolution of 1024x768 has no where near the screen real estate as Googles Nexus 10 (2560x1600) - just drop the resolution on your computer screen - same screen size but suddenly all the icons and menus are much bigger, giving less useable area.
Obviously this becomes much less of a problem when the screen is high resolution and the images can just be scaled.
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You are wrong. A 1280x800 and a 2560x1600 10" tablet would display the same content on Android. The difference is that the 2560x1600 tablet would have much sharper text and more detailed images, but the content would be identical. That's because both fall into the same bucket for layouts. What needs to be different, though, are the images, because they have different DPIs, so developers have to provide a few sets of images so they look sharp at all resolutions, rather than one set that gets blown up or scaled down.