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I would also like to point out that there is a JailBrake tweak, FullForce, that lets you stretch most iPhone apps to iPad screen. Most iPhone apps can actually stretch and grow, and can actually do so pretty well. And, it worked even before auto layout. Apple, stupidly, did not allow legacy apps to auto stretch on iPhone 5 because (a) they wanted to force developers to update, and (b) they are paranoid about some things not working perfectly. A tweak like full force could have starched 90% of all iPhone 4 apps to iPhone 5 screen, but Apple would not allow it because of the 10% that would not work so well. But the software supports it, and to claim otherwise is silly.

[easytiger]

I agree that it isn't as big a deal as some people are making out. But at the end of the day you can't disagree that it was a massive flaw from the beginning of the iPhone (and its days before it let people develop apps for it) driven likely by the megalomaniac supposition that if you build a phone you can't reach all parts with from your thumb: "no one's going to buy that."*

*http://goo.gl/pTwfws