"Rather than do something interesting with this space, though, Apple will simply letterbox all 3:2 apps — all 700,000 of them in the App Store. If you can belie

"Rather than do something interesting with this space, though, Apple will simply letterbox all 3:2 apps — all 700,000 of them in the App Store. If you can believe it, you will actually get black bars at the top and bottom of the screen." Please. What else would you do besides letterboxing? Stretch the content in the y direction? That would look terrible. Implement some cool new feature that lives inside the new screen real estate? Then devs wouldn't want to upgrade their apps to support the iPhone 5 ratio. Letterboxing is for backwards-compatibility, but the author makes it sound like Apple can't think of anything creative to fill that space. And because the screen dimension change is only in one direction, developers will have an easier time modifying their app layouts.