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Comment by jpcx01 | Hacker News Reader

At this point, Gruber is basically an extension of Apple's marketing department. Someone at Apple said "people are going to be disappointed when iPad doesn't have double resolution, leak some info to gruber to tamper down expectations".

I'm going to go ahead and take this one as fact. Retina iPad would be great, but that'll be in a year or 2.

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Gruber, of course, has some interesting comments in that area:

>From an official PR perspective, Apple, famously, says nothing regarding what it will or will not be announcing before a major keynote. But they do, somehow, seem to occasionally manage expectations quietly behind the scenes.

-On the pre-MacBook Air hype

http://daringfireball.net/2008/01/macworld_expo_prelude

So Gruber is well aware that he is a tool.

Name calling aside, all journalists depend on their subject for news and all subjects have a interest in being reported in a positive light. Of course there are degrees to which that relationship is a two-way relationship. A war correspondent doesn't want war, but yet without it, they don't have a job. And the politicians waging the war are considering the impact of media portrayal. Are they using the media as a tool? They sure will if they can.

Movie critic? Game review blog? Local news reporter? They are all being "used".

In fact, it is disappointing. iPad's readability is nowhere near the iPhone 4.

A screen update, for a device whose primary purpose is reading, is really needed IMHO.

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