Actually, I'm guessing the ballpark of ~350 ppi (the iPhone 4 has 326) is as far as consumer displays are going to go. There's not much point in doing more than that. This sounds preposterous but it happened before. CD-ROM speeds stopped increasing at some point. Technical difficulties definitely had a hand it that, but no doubt the fact that the market didn't really need much more than 50x played a major role as well.
However, the 1:1.5 form factor the iPhone has, I bet future designs may break with this. As will the sheer size of the display, in inches (which, if ~350 ppi is stuck to, means more pixel-by-pixel on the display). The iPod and the iPad are already clear examples of this. The idea of 'design for the one or the other' and effectively ship your app in 2 modes concept doesn't scale. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
