[satman17]

Am I right in saying there is no Olympic games BBC app for the iPad? I can get the phone app!

[thedrewser]

Yes, but it's fine. I was watching live coverage using the phone app on my Pad yesterday and it's fine, no issues. Obviously you have to press the size up button but the video playing is as normal.

One hint though, unless watching video use it in portrait otherwise all the menu icons at the bottom disappear.

[paulbrock]

I don't get the fascination with having ipad specific versions of apps. The android BBC olympic app takes advantage of the extra space on a big screen just fine....not like it has massive buttons intended for phone use only.

[lettice]

To be honest the bbc sport pages are good on the ipad, so no need for the specific app.

But if you have a JB ipad, use a tweak like fullforce, which enables full screen mode for iPhone apps, this works great with the bbc olympics app on the ipad

[susie-4964]

The iPhone BBC Olympic app works fine on my iPad. Just double up the size.

[paulbrock]

Originally Posted by lettice

But if you have a JB ipad, use a tweak like fullforce, which enables full screen mode for iPhone apps, this works great with the bbc olympics app on the ipad

is the default behaviour not to scale them up?

[alanwarwic]

Originally Posted by paulbrock

I don't get the fascination with having ipad specific versions of apps.

Why scale properly for the device when you an sell specific apps?

Bad programming springs to mind but it is more so the attraction of double selling.

[paulbrock]

Originally Posted by alanwarwic

Why scale properly for the device when you an sell specific apps?

Bad programming springs to mind but it is more so the attraction of double selling.

from the developer point of view, sure. But there does seem to be a clamour for specific ipad/tablet versions from the consumer as well, and not just on here.

[alan1302]

Originally Posted by paulbrock

from the developer point of view, sure. But there does seem to be a clamour for specific ipad/tablet versions from the consumer as well, and not just on here.

You get this on Android apps as well - I have a 7" tablet and some of the software is designed for a much smaller phone screen so when it gets scaled up it does not look as good as it could do so would prefer either a choice of phone and tablet versions or the phone version scaling well to a bigger screen.

[paulbrock]

Originally Posted by alan1302

You get this on Android apps as well - I have a 7" tablet and some of the software is designed for a much smaller phone screen so when it gets scaled up it does not look as good as it could do so would prefer either a choice of phone and tablet versions or the phone version scaling well to a bigger screen.

There's only the occasional very low res game that has looked bad that I've found so far. Everything else seems to have been designed for a resolution similar to the nexus 7 and scales just fine.

[alan1302]

Originally Posted by paulbrock

There's only the occasional very low res game that has looked bad that I've found so far. Everything else seems to have been designed for a resolution similar to the nexus 7 and scales just fine.

I've found quite a few - not enough to be a major problem but enough to be annoying! LOL

[alanwarwic]

Originally Posted by paulbrock

from the developer point of view, sure. But there does seem to be a clamour for specific i..versions from the consumer as well.

All mainly playground clamour I'm sure.

On IOS the reason is to help get one app sale per owned device. This is quite important when they average something like £1.99.

[paulbrock]

well if the rumours are true the iphone 5 will have a different aspect ratio, throwing a spanner in the works....or maybe people will pay again for a iphone 5 version