According to Daring Fireball, it boils down to design and Steve Jobs’ perfectionism:
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. At least that’s the story I’ve heard from a few well-informed little birdies.
Part of me hopes those little birdies are wrong. I’m far too attached to the Clock and Calculator apps and would dread having to find alternatives in the App Store. [Daring Fireball]
Shane
March 9, 2010 at 12:35 PM
You’ll probably have to download them as paid apps!
Seriously though,
– stocks, no great lose
– calculator is a massive argument for multi-tasking (could you imagine been able to have a little floating calculator on-top of your other apps!)
– clock, no great lose, so long as you can find the date/time on the mac-bar
– Weather, use pocket weather any way, so no great lose
– Voice memos, there are going to be enough fan-people whispering sweet nothings to this device that it’s, quite frankly, a good thing that it will be missing.
The funny thing is, with the exception of calculator, I’ve never used any of these apps any way (okay, weather I did till I got pocket weather) and would seriously love the ability to at least “hide” them so I don’t need to relegate them to the “last” screen…
Report Permalinkspiderlama
March 9, 2010 at 1:03 PM
Personally, I use Clock all the time for alarms and knowing when not to call my overseas colleagues. Also to time the microwave in the work kitchen, so I know when to go and get my food! Plus the weather app is a given…
Report PermalinkKevin Hingston
March 9, 2010 at 4:14 PM
Will be so glad to lose stocks! Wish they’d take the unreliable weather app out too.
Clock is a huge loss though, if we can’t easily set alarms or see international clocks.
Calculator just opens up a hole for a paid developer, which is silly.
They need a class of app called ‘floater’ or ‘background’. Apps like calculators, calendars, tasks, RSS, and clocks – low footprint productivity apps that can run in ‘background’ and float over stuff.
Oh wait. Apple tell ME what I want. My bad.
Report PermalinkDeb
March 10, 2010 at 7:22 AM
They have to leave something for the iPod Touch to do!
Report PermalinkMistrblank
March 19, 2010 at 1:38 AM
Maybe they are there, shifted off to one of those other open pages? Or better yet, maybe Apple has recognized we don’t want those apps anymore and shouldn’t be forced to have them on our iPhoneOS device?
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