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Instead of giving you the real pixels with a DPI setting, they hide them and create the retina/non-retina modes for applications, so you have to pay for "retina
by darkstalker 14y ago
Instead of giving you the real pixels with a DPI setting, they hide them and create the retina/non-retina modes for applications, so you have to pay for "retina-enabled" apps. A whole new way of sucking money out of apple users.
- batista 14y agoWhere you got that bizarro idea? You won't pay anything more. Pro Apple apps just got a free update to Retina-enabled, regular apps will get updated with Mountain Lion, and third party apps will also be updated for free. I don't think you understand what this high-DPI thing is meant to be and how it is supposed to work. Giving you the real pixels is not an option, because every asset of every app would have to be updated or look tiny and be unusable. It doesn't even make sense what you propose, because retina screens are meant to give extra detail for same sized elements, not merely extra pixels -- nobody needs 5MP in a 15", whereas the extra detail is easily appreciated.
- cynix 14y ago> third party apps will also be updated for free. There's no guarantee that 3rd party developers will provide a free update. They could release Foo HD alongside their Foo app and make you buy it again.