LOL!!!!

if that’s the case, the post author is wrong. just a cursory glance at an app page in the iTunes app store and you can see that every app already has higher quality [100px] icon that could be used on a higher resolution home page.

or apple could just use more icons per page at the current resolution.

There are image formats that can contain multiple resolutions. This is not worth dithering about (pun intended) on TiPB given the nature of the news in the last few days.

I don’t think the “pixelated icon” image was necessarily intended to indicate icons as a problem (and the article doesn’t mention them being a problem). I think it was just meant to compare the current iPhone’s resolution with HD resolution.

I brought up icons because (not being a developer) I was not aware that all apps had larger versions than what I see in iTunes.

every single app in the app store already have a “large” sized icon for use in the app store? this can easily be resized down to what ever size is necessary, and look fine.

most apps mainly use interface elements that are part of cocoa. they’ll look fine.

some apps use custom buttons, controls and backgrounds that can be replaced easily. we’re talking less than a day’s work for the vast majority of these apps, provided the icon designer has higher resolution versions of the icons, and only slightly longer if they don’t. very easy to swap icons around.

games would have the biggest problem with this, as they’re more complex and are often very dependent on a specific resolution for display.

but pixelated icons, in app and out, are not in any way a serious issue.

Any new iPhone will have to have a higher resolution screen to keep up with all the 480×800 screens everyone else is slapping on their phones. It would probably be best to wait another year when Apple can really improve with a mind blowing high resolution OLED screen, at which point lots of iPhone 3G contracts will be expiring, the economy will be on the up swing, and people will have tons of money to throw at Apple once again.

@Olek – it wouldn’t, actually, because each pixel would, as you say, be four. Thus the squarish aliasing effect. If the dpi were higher, its possible the effect might be partially alleviated, but it would still be noticeable methinks.