John Gruber just discussed how the iPad 2 retina display is too good to be true:
But so what’s the deal with those double-resolution UI graphics in iBooks? I don’t know, but my guess is that it’s just the work of a UI designer thinking ahead. Sooner or later, the iPad will get a retina display, and I remain convinced that it will be exactly double the current resolution. (There are 2048 × 1536 iPad prototypes in Cupertino. They’re not the iPad 2, though.) Double-resolution graphics created now are double-resolution graphics that don’t have to be created under a tight deadline later, when such an iPad actually ships. (I suspect it’s an oversight that these graphics were actually included in the app bundle at this point.)
I had this feeling when I was originally posting the UI element.1 I’m thinking this was meant for the iPad 3 (probably in 2012).
(Source: Daring Fireball)
- Too bad I didn’t say it out loud. [↩]
