Yesterday we heard rumor of Apple testing a higher-resolution iPad display for a future generation of the device — now the incredibly well informed John Gruber has dropped a note seeming to confirm that the iPad 3 will be 2045×1536. Gruber has a habit of casually mentioning tidbits about upcoming Apple releases in almost-unrelated news stories, where eagle-eyed readers can catch them. Most recently, he linked to an article about reading on the iPad, finishing with the remark:
Resolution independence. These magazines and newspapers that render each “page” as a static 1024 × 768 image are going to look like utter ass on the iPad 3’s 2048 × 1536 retina display. Plus, it’s the fact that these pages are rendered as static images that makes the issues such gargantuan downloads.
“The iPad 3’s 2048 × 1536 retina display.” That’s a money quote if ever there was one.
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