by Christopher Mims, Technology Review
I’m not going to win any genius points for making this observation, especially because I stole it from Benedict Evans, but the new iPad’s 2048×1536 screen resolution presents a unique set of problems for image-heavy apps. For those of us who remember the old days, when it was the people doing design for print who bought the extra RAM for their towers in order to handle “giant” images, it’s clear that the base 16GB iPad 3 isn’t going to cut it any longer. Those 250 MB copies of WIRED you’ve grown fond of? A 4x increase in resolution won’t translate directly to a 4x increase in file size, but I can only imagine that the folks at Adobe are furiously trying to figure out how to tamp down the file size of the magazines and ebooks their publishing system produces.
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