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Re:Google’s not-so-secret new OS by MarkMc on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @02:01AM (#13650254)
I'm not saying that the app would have exactly the same UI on a phone and a desktop computer - the developer is free to customise the UI for the device.
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Re:Google’s not-so-secret new OS by pjmlp on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @02:20AM (#13650314)
Most of them already fail to do so for tablets, why would that change?
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Re:Google’s not-so-secret new OS by MarkMc on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @05:18AM (#13650942)
'Most' apps do not get used even once [1] so their user experience doesn't really matter.

Most popular apps are designed for both tablet and phone. The ones that haven't specifically been designed for tablet are usually basic things like Guitar Tuner or Flashlight which don't suffer much from having a phone layout on a tablet.

Sure, you will still sometimes encounter a crappy app which has a horrible user experience on your device - similar to web pages and webapps which assume you have a 24-inch display - but not often enough for users to avoid the platform.

[1] http://www.phonearena.com/news/400000-apps-in-the-App-Store-...

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Re:Google’s not-so-secret new OS by flukus on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @09:07PM (#13657330)
At that point it's less complicated to have multiple apps than a single all form factors one.
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