Here's why apps won't be ready for the new iPad

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> While the iPad renders things like text for the sharper screen automatically, ... textures and other art assets need to be redone to better utilize the extra pixels.

> ... some applications have ballooned in size, which includes Apple's own apps. Pages ... went from 95MB to 269MB while Numbers ... increased from 109MB to 283MB.

I find it hard to believe the that bumps of this size are primarily to do with the resolution of graphics for interface purposes, even if they are keeping two copies of everything (one for hi resolution and one for low). If it is then the team working on those apps is doing something very wrong. I've not looked into the details but I suspect the feature sets have ballooned significantly too.

I think those numbers make sense. It is not just a new set of images (which could duplicate the application size) is a new set with four times the size of the biggest size you already had.

My problem with the sizes is that I wouldn't have thought there war that much graphical content in that sort of application. Just toolbar (and other) button images, a few for fancy effects on the apps "crome" and a high res image or two for splash screens. Perhaps I'm behind the times there?

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