[andrewflnr]

It's easy enough to tap a menu to get it to open. As an iPad user, I don't think I would mind a well-designed hover-centric workflow, as long as it works okay on touch too.

It would have to be well-designed, though. Apparently it's really easy to wind up with a moronic hover-based menu, judging by the number of them I see around.

[notatoad]

The trouble is that android doesn't support hover-events the way iOS does. On iOS taps automatically turn into hovers when there is a hover behaviour, on android a tap is always a click.