A month ago I talked about the missing Stocks, Weather, Voice Memo, Clock and Calculator applications on the iPad. They might return as widgets, but Daring Fireball’s John Gruber’s sources says otherwise.
“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 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. At least that’s the story I’ve heard from a few well-informed little birdies.
(There is, alas, no secret “widget” mode for iPad in OS 3.2, either.)”
Gruber also notes that iPhone games will work well on the iPad but simpler non-game iPhone applications will just feel strange. The small window in the middle of the screen of the iPad to display the iPhone app feels strange and also the 2x button makes the app look and feel slightly “off”.
Source: Daring Fireball
