Complete outlier device but; tablets with active styli (pretty much just the galaxy note range I think) use hover and it works really well.

Honestly, If there was no hover, you'd probably not even notice, you rarely notice it unless you have a 10 or 12 inch tablet anyway, just thought it worth mentioning if it's easy to a device whitelist or something especially if the active stylus thing takes off on iPads (the iPad pro has that pencil thing)