iPad unlikely to have iPhone apps and widgets

If you have used iPhone, you would probably agree with Brian X. Chen of Wired,  that the iPad doesn’t have all the apps that iPhone has such as Stocks, Calculator and Voice Memos. John Gruber of Daring Fireball with the help of few of his insiders suggests that the Apple Tablet won’t have the iPhone apps when it is released on 3rd April. Moreover, he has found a possible answer to this slightly surprising omissions, which we discuss after the jump.

Gruber  is of the opinion that the iPhone apps are going to be ignored for the iPad because of some UI up-scaling issues with the apps.

It’s not that Apple couldn’t just create bigger versions of these apps and have them run on the iPad. It wasn’t a technical problem, it was a design problem. There were, internally to Apple (of course), versions of these apps (or at least some of them) with upscaled iPad-sized graphics, but otherwise the same UI and layout as the iPhone versions. Ends up that just blowing up iPhone apps to fill the iPad screen looks and feels weird, even if you use higher-resolution graphics so that nothing looks pixelated. So they were scrapped by you-know-who. Perhaps they’ll appear on the iPad in some re-imagined form this summer with OS 4.0, but when the iPad ships next month, there won’t be versions of these apps.

To add to the frustration, iPhone widgets (secret widget mode) won’t be making their way to iPad either. Wait there is  a glimmer of hope – these missing apps might eventually make their way to the iPad once Apple announces iPhone 4.0.

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