If the Retina display does text automatically...

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  1. MoodyM, Mar 18, 2012

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    ...why did the Kindle app need an update to make the text within books look Retina-sharp? Web pages, etc, look terrific on the Retina display, I assume because the iPad is supposed to "retinise" text automatically...
     
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  2. Paulywauly, Mar 18, 2012

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    The text may have done this automatically, but the rest of the app (graphics and interface elements) were not and would need to be updated anyway
     
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  3. Menel, Mar 18, 2012

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    It should generally, Amazon must have done something funky and didn't use Apple's font/text API. Maybe created their own.

    Its an unknown.
     
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  4. kallyq, Mar 18, 2012

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    I noticed also that blue fire reader (and I think nook app) were not showing crisp text.
     
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  5. MoodyM, Mar 18, 2012

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    In the Kindle app, it didn't, the text looked horrific pre-update...
     
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