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Updating interfaces for iPad 3: Why your favorite app might take a while to go Retina

By , Wednesday, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:49 pm
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Depending on how an app was designed and developed, updating for an iPad 3 Retina display could take days or weeks

Flash forward — After lining up for hours, or sitting at home all day waiting for a courier to arrive, you finally have your hands on an iPad 3 with its amazing Retina display. A display with over 3.1 million pixels. All of them difficult to distinguish, because they're so damn tiny. Text is crisp. Photos look are amazing. This thing is gorgeous.

You launch your favourite app and notice things aren't as amazing as they were a few seconds ago. The app in question doesn't contain Retina image assets -- the pictures that make up the user interface elements are at the iPad 2's screen resolution, so things look as blocky as they did on your previous iPad. What's going on?

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Iterate 14: Flyosity

By , Sunday, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:39 am
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Marc, Seth, and Rene iterate about the iPhone mute switch (sigh), Android interface guidelines, Windows Phone at CES 2012, and PNG compression redux, and interrogate Mike Rundle of Flyosity. Plus, we sneak a question to Joe Belfiore of Windows Phone. This is Iterate!

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Samsung Ace a blast from iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS past?

By , Wednesday, Jan 4, 2012 at 8:26 pm
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The Samsung Galaxy Ace, a new entry level Android phone, looks an awful lot like the iPhone 3G/iPhone 3GS. Samsung has a history of copying Apple's design

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Apple SVP of Design Jonathan Ive gets official knighthood

By , Friday, Dec 30, 2011 at 9:39 pm
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Apple Senior Vice President of Design, Jonathan Ive has been made a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE), in recognition of his work at Apple and contributions to the

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iPhone 4S Photoshop template for developers and designers

By , Friday, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:37 pm
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Marshall Bock has posted a set of iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 Photoshop templates on his blog. They include:

Both 4 and 4S models Both black and white body colors

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Apple design exhibit at MKG Hamburg

By , Sunday, Oct 23, 2011 at 7:19 pm
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Michael T. Rose of TUAW has posted a fantastic look Apple design exhibit at MKG Hamburg. If you love Apple and Jony Ive design, are intrigued by the influences of

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iPhone 4S name and design leaked by iTunes

By , Saturday, Oct 1, 2011 at 6:45 pm
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A leak in iTunes may have settled the rumors and debates about the design and name of the next iPhone. iTunes 10.5 beta 9 includes image files for the new

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Apple working on curved-glass display for the iPhone 6 in 2012?

By , Monday, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:38 am
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Randomly accurate rumor site Digitimes is once again beating the drum on rumors they spurred up back in May about Apple prepping a curved-glass design across iOS devices including the

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Probably not iPhone 5 cases leak

By , Wednesday, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:03 pm
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More reports are springing up that the next generation iPhone 5 will feature a thinner, tapered hardware design based off images of 3rd party silicone cases. Now this is not

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Microsoft is square, Apple is roundrect, Google is...?

By , Saturday, Jul 2, 2011 at 8:15 pm
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Clayton Miller's Interuserface takes a look at the iconic shapes behind today's biggest mobile companies, and while Apple, iPhone, and iPad are obviously roundrects (rounded rectangles), their competition is just

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