> Apple didn’t release devices with Retina displays until they could be confident that such devices were at least no worse than non-Retina devices in pretty muc

> Apple didn’t release devices with Retina displays until they could be confident that such devices were at least no worse than non-Retina devices in pretty much any regard That's... not how it works. More pixels means more CPU, GPU and memory cycles to fill them and more DAC cycles to read them out and scan them to the display. That's just fundamental.