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Why no retina icons for popular apps like ...
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Curious how much code re-write this requires for retina? Could be simple or very time consuming.
I agree, write em all in retina!!
I want more updates for Retina, very few apps have been updated! Come on it can be so hard to update games likes Solitairy City or Bejeweled Blitz! 
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Personally I can happily live without glossy icons occupying more space on my iPad....I would much prefer the app's themselves to be High Res.
This is just talking about the icon on home page, which requires zero recoding, just updating the resource.
Yes agree. Only the new Space is designed for Retina display! They're pretty lazy aye
Updating the resource can itself be a time intensive task, especially if a developer hasn't got high resolution source material to work with. For example, if the developer has created a 64x64 pixel (or whatever dimension the icons are) image, but hasn't created one at 128x128, then the developer is likely to have to create the 128x128 icon from scratch.
You also have to factor in the time it takes for apps to be approved by Apple - sometimes it can go quickly, other times it won't. It also depends on whether Apple actually check updates to applications as thoroughly as new application submissions.
Not really, they have to have a high res icon for app store anyway. they just need to update the app icon itself to be the same.
Words With Friends got an update recently but not to support retina display graphics, annoyingly.
That high res icon has also increased in size. I guess that Apple will require all the icon assets to be updated for the Retina iPad.
I don't think it has. Unless I'm mistaken the hi res icons for iPad 3 icons are the same resolution as the hi res icons for iPhone 4 and 4s.
That's why the universal apps already have retina icons on the new iPad.
I agree. I'll be looking at the app itself more than the icons, which only receive a cursory glance when I'm clicking on them. So for me the resolution of icons is inconsequential.
iTunes U has been updated specifically for Retina iPad. But I haven't used it.
Airport Uility has NOT be updated. The icon looks fine, it carried over from iPhone likely. Not sure why Apple didn't update it, probably for same reason they don't update their Store app to support iPad. Maybe they figure no one uses it and don't care to dedicate man hours to fixing them.