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Would you please consider making the iOS apps universal? A lot of other developers that support both iPhone and iPad platforms do this and it has benefits for us (your customers) and you guys.

For us customers:
  • One app to buy. It feels archaic in 2013 having to buy the same thing twice for 2 devices.
  • Smaller install size with single app.
  • Less setup and tweaking

For your developers:
  • Single code base
  • Faster fixes and features
  • Less support

I saw another post where someone stated that it's not possible because the interfaces are different. It is possible whether you use Xcode Storyboards or XIBs or are doing HTML 5 compiled to native. I'm a developer too so I could show you. :-)

Please don't mistake this for a rant. I like your products, but this is an enormous downside to using them to keep my projects and tasks in sync and I'd like to see them improve even more. It's just a disconnected feeling and a lot more expensive than it needs to be at this point. Thanks for listening.
 
Yes, I'm pretty sure it's technically feasible. Which is not to say it's necessarily going to provide faster fixes and features. If we want to release a bug fix that only affects iPad customers, we'd still have to re-test the app on the iPhone as well. I also don't understand how it would reduce support efforts.

We have a lot of customers who only use OmniFocus on one device or the other. We can better serve them by providing a la carte pricing and a smaller download, rather than asking them to pay for and download nearly two full apps when they only need one. (Or trying to create one interface that would work equally well on both platforms!)
 
 


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