[TillE]

> No iPad version

I really wonder why Google does this. It took them months to release the iPad version of their Maps app, with very few UI differences. There's something broken about that workflow.

Not quite as bad as the oft-promised Google Drive for Linux, but still.

[untog]

Incentive? Do people use Maps and Music on iPad to the extent that they do on iPhone? Personally, I only really use both when I'm on the move - I'm very unlikely to pull out a tablet at that point.

This applies a lot more to Maps than it does to Music, of course.

[bsimpson]

But large-screen maps is a lot more useful than large-screen music UI.

[untog]

Is it? I would argue that "portable" maps are more important than large screen ones.

[gress]

They have to support the iPhone because it's almost half the smartphone users in the US. They don't need to support the iPad because they don't think of it as an important platform.

[smackfu]

Web page versions of stuff tend to work better on an iPad than on an iPhone. Facebook didn't have an iPad app for the longest time.

[nobodyshere]

I believe they rely on metrics that they get from android devices where probably tablets aren't that popular among users of such services.