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1.5x would indeed look bad for "legacy" apps, but I think even this fits in to Apple's current developer strategy: Update or get left behind. I mean, remember,
by mortenjorck 17y ago
1.5x would indeed look bad for "legacy" apps, but I think even this fits in to Apple's current developer strategy: Update or get left behind.
I mean, remember, Apple was willing just recently here to risk the incredible backlash of 3.3.1 for the sake of platform direction. I think they'll gladly risk developers complaining about redrawing UI bitmaps.
- mattparcher 17y agoI think 3.3.1 is primarily a developer issue, whereas resolution is very much a user-facing issue as well. With the iPad, Apple didn't force developers to recode their iPhone apps, instead it allowed the older apps to run at native or double resolution. Granted, the double resolution doesn't look pretty, and Apple is strongly encouraging developers to produce iPad native apps, but they definitely seem to be taking advantage of their 185,000 app head start, and 1.5x would presumably look even worse on an iPad than 2x.
- zmmmmm 17y ago> I think even this fits in to Apple's current developer strategy: Update or get left behind That seems like the opposite of their developer strategy to me. They've resisted making any substantial changes to the basic hardware profile of the iPod Touch / iPhone lineup ever since it was released, presumably to save developers from having to target multiple devices (and this is still a point raised as a complaint against android all the time).