> However, I think they got stuck on dimensions set in 2007 and an operating system that isn't flexible enough. (FYI all my devices except my phone are made by Apple.)
Not really the operating system, so much as the APIs provided to developers, which previously required complex layouts to be hand-coded.
However, constraint-based layout was introduced 3 years ago and is being aggressively marketed as 'the future', although it has required some learning time for developers (and wastage of old devices) to become mainstream.
It is likely that the reason for introducing this several years ago was to ease the future introduction of varying screen sizes. I'd view the delay as a consequence of thinking about the problem in its entirety instead of rushing to play the numbers game.
Not really the operating system, so much as the APIs provided to developers, which previously required complex layouts to be hand-coded.
However, constraint-based layout was introduced 3 years ago and is being aggressively marketed as 'the future', although it has required some learning time for developers (and wastage of old devices) to become mainstream.
It is likely that the reason for introducing this several years ago was to ease the future introduction of varying screen sizes. I'd view the delay as a consequence of thinking about the problem in its entirety instead of rushing to play the numbers game.