In other words, finicky designers would scale their apps for the (original) iPhone view and the (Mini) iPad view and let their larger counterparts just be larger.

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Apple have reduced any potential points of fragmentation from a hardware point of view on the iPad Mini.

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And expect rich media and video to replace static banners so that users can view trailers or play a mini-game before they commit to a download.

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