Apple's Messages Beta for Mac Includes Retina Sized Artwork

[Xenc]

And that from someone with an Android Avatar - Android, the master of screen size (resolution) fragmentation causing additional work for developers for no good reason.

Huh? I'm saying that it's not free to create super sized assets, therefore it's unfair to say that developers are merely being lazy.

And no - nothing will look blurry - it will look the same as on current displays - no need to spread BS

My question was a legitimate one. 720p video being played back in fullscreen looks great on lower resolutions, but can look blurry when on a iMac 27", for example. One would expect the same to occur between a non-retina display and a retina one.

 

[twoodcc]

looking forward to great displays on new macs!

 

[MythicFrost]

My question was a legitimate one. 720p video being played back in fullscreen looks great on lower resolutions, but can look blurry when on a iMac 27", for example. One would expect the same to occur between a non-retina display and a retina one.

Let me explain it like this:

You've got a 720p video on a 720p 13 inch display, each pixel in each frame of the video takes up one pixel on the screen, so it looks great. Take that and put it on a 27 inch 2560x1440 display, it stretches to fit the screen -- by quadrupling the pixels in the movie. On the smaller resolution display where you might have a pixel which is a shade of red at the very top left, will now be four pixels of that shade of red at the very top left.

When however, you maintain the physical size of a display but double the resolution (quadruple the pixels), it still stretches the video, but the difference is four pixels on the higher resolution (but same sized display) is now the size of one. So even though the pixel data is duplicated, it looks the same.