While I would certainly like to have a slightly higher resolution, can somebody tell me what is exactly wrong with the iPad's display? Yes, it doesn't look as sharp as the Retina display, but tell me please: Do you compare the Retina Display with the display of your MacBook?
I just don't get it...
I believe the ipad has a great display and of course it will become even better with the next iPad generation.
The screen on the current iPad is very nice.
However, the problem is, people are pushing the resolving power a bit too far, and in some instances, actually in quite a few instances actually, there are just not enough dots on the screen to clearly resolve the typeface.
This is not the fault of the iPad as such, it's just that to smoothly and clearly render a nice clear character you need a certain amount of pixels.
Even websites in portrait mode are pretty much pushing it to the limit.
Some newspapers are actually impossible to render as there just are not enough dots there to create the characters so you end up with a blurry shape.
So, it's not the iPads fault as such, it's just that people are pushing it beyond what the screen can do.
To be honest, you would really need to double the res to 2048x1536 in both directions to render some of what people are trying to do today with some clarity.
I know it's been said a hundred times it can't be done yet.
My views are, YES, Apple can make the screen.
If you can make the 3.5" iPhone screen with that pixel density then, after a year of perfecting the technique I'm 100% certain in the factory they could make a 10" display with a 2048x1536 resolution.
I'm positive it could be made. Especially, as I say they have had a year to perfect the manufacturing on the iPhone4 screens.
The only problem is moving that many pixels around.
First, Again, I think we all know the iPad could, probably even now happily display a static image in that screen res. It's shifting them about which is the problem.
I have an idea, and it may be totally stupid, but it's just an idea.
Perhaps, and I know this is a BIG PERHAPS, you could develop some tech in the screen controller, to effectively pixel double (in hardware) the screen for moving?
So, for a static screen, perhaps web browsing, or book reading, all that sort of things, then the full res could be used, and we could have crystal clear tiny typefaces with double the current screen res.
Perhaps, and it is a BIG PERHAPS, for games, for the time being, some hardware pixel doubling chip could be used, so the iPad is only actually shifting the same graphics res around, but it's passed to this chip that moves 4 pixels instead of one, on the new display.
As I say I'm making this up, but I could see the logic that something like this may technically be possible.
Anyone care to comment?
