greenmedic88 on 20 May 2012
| famousringo said: couple more points: The "VGChartz Buddy" is not Flash. It's javascript. There's no reason the iPad can't load it. Plenty of other web sites have chosen to display similar floating menus to mobile Safari. I would guess that VGC chose not to in order to make this site a little less bloated for mobile devices. Since the graphing feature has been removed from VGC, the only Flash on this site is in the ads. Second, I doubt we'll ever see a 7" iPad. A UI designed for iPhone would blow up too big and a UI designed for iPad would shrink down too small. I don't think Apple will ask developers to make a third UI to serve the market niche of people who want colour e-readers. |
All the engineers have to do is use the same iPad 2 resolution of 1024x768, maintaining the same UI proportions, only displaying at a tighter dot pitch in a proportionally smaller area.
Personally I don't really care if Apple releases such a device and it would deviate from their business model of selling all products at a profit over production cost. If measured by consumer demand for inexpensive 7" iPads, fine, but it seems like the point of said device would be just as much to squeeze out even more market share by competing directly with $200-300 7" tablets which seems unnecessary.
