(Random aside: I agree with all your arguments against the retina iPad display. That said, I wrote the iOS Artwork Tool, which reads and writes the .artwork fi

(Random aside: I agree with all your arguments against the retina iPad display. That said, I wrote the iOS Artwork Tool, which reads and writes the .artwork files found in iOS SDKs. Last night I updated the tool with iOS5 support and to my surprise discovered new iPad-specific @2x graphics. To be clear, the iPad @2x graphics appear to be woefully incomplete... but it's clear that someone over there is working on this. Timeframes? I'll leave that to the rumor mill. Will it eventually happen? I'll venture a cautious yes.)