I'd be willing to bet a million bucks if I had it that the ipad 3 WILL NOT get a retina display. Why you ask?
Because it would make no sense for the following reasons:
1. Too many pixels for 3d games to push.
2. 4 times more pixels would require a whole lot more power hungry processor which would translate into lower battery life and apple would not go for that.
3. A nice 1080p screen will be just good enough for iPad 3 and current iPad apps (before they get updated) would simply have a half an inch border around them.
4. The iphone 4 NEEDED a quad resolution display since having a border on an already tiny screen would have been overkill. So Apple had no choice but to go with four pixels to properly display one. The iPad 3 on the other hand, can handle a nice border for current apps just fine.
5. A glasses-free 3d screen would be way more impressive than that many extra pixels no one will ever notice.
6. Xbox 360 has a hard time running many games at 1080p, so how on earth will little ipad 3 run apps at 1536p with less power and keep the notorious 10 hour usage?
7. Watching movies/videos on the iPad 3 (with a retina display) would ALWAYS look blurry since even a 1080p movie would have to be stretched to fill the entire screen.
8. Apple is not stupid. They only do things if it makes sense, and a iPad sporting a 2058 x 1536 resolution screen doesn't make sense. It makes no sense for games, videos, movies and performance. All the four things matter to apple a whole lot. Especially performance in the battery department!
Remember who you heard it from first-
Within 8 days, you will all find out that I was right all along
Because it would make no sense for the following reasons:
1. Too many pixels for 3d games to push.
2. 4 times more pixels would require a whole lot more power hungry processor which would translate into lower battery life and apple would not go for that.
3. A nice 1080p screen will be just good enough for iPad 3 and current iPad apps (before they get updated) would simply have a half an inch border around them.
4. The iphone 4 NEEDED a quad resolution display since having a border on an already tiny screen would have been overkill. So Apple had no choice but to go with four pixels to properly display one. The iPad 3 on the other hand, can handle a nice border for current apps just fine.
5. A glasses-free 3d screen would be way more impressive than that many extra pixels no one will ever notice.
6. Xbox 360 has a hard time running many games at 1080p, so how on earth will little ipad 3 run apps at 1536p with less power and keep the notorious 10 hour usage?
7. Watching movies/videos on the iPad 3 (with a retina display) would ALWAYS look blurry since even a 1080p movie would have to be stretched to fill the entire screen.
8. Apple is not stupid. They only do things if it makes sense, and a iPad sporting a 2058 x 1536 resolution screen doesn't make sense. It makes no sense for games, videos, movies and performance. All the four things matter to apple a whole lot. Especially performance in the battery department!
Remember who you heard it from first-
Within 8 days, you will all find out that I was right all along
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