Better support for iPhone Retina display apps

The iPad display is higher resolution than the iPhone 4. It would be nice if when I use an iPhone app on my iPad that is built for a retina display if it was not downscaled to a non-retina resolution. This would make the apps built for the retina display way more usable on the iPad.
Seems like an easy change. I'm actually surprised it was not included as part of iOS 4.2.1.

Again, that's not how it works. Apple didn't really have to do anything for the iPhone 4 because they're the same screen size. All they did was double every pixel for the iPhone 4 which is what you see when you use 2x mode on the iPad. If the iPhone had a 10" screen, even with the retina display it would look just as blocky as the iPad because of the screen size.
Did you not notice the resolution for iPhone 4 is exactly 2x that of the old iPhones? 640x960 vs 320x480. They didn't do anything special with the iPhone 4 to make the old apps look good, the screen size being the same is what made the difference.
this is all in reference to the iPhone 4 displaying apps not optimised for the retina display.

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The point about whether to use an automatic process or not is a separate issue. I can understand that some people would not want to use it. However, even doing it manually in PE12 does not use the MWG standard.
Thanks for the pointer to the thread, which I note was started 2 years ago, with the last comment a year ago.
From that, I draw the conclusion that the PE developers see this as a very low priority. All the more reason for me to look at competitor products that do support this standard (e.g. Picasa and Photo Supreme).
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Following some messages I have posted regarding problems I encountered while developing a non-English web application, I would like to call upon an even better support for Unicode. Before I describe my call, I want to say that I consider Berkeley DBXML a superb product. Superb. It lets us develop very clean and maintainable applications. Maintainability is, in my view, the keyword in good software development practices.
In this message I would like to remind you that the US-ASCII 8-bit set of characters only represents 0.4% of all characters in the world. It is also true to say that most of our software comes from efforts of American developers, for which I am of course very grateful.
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Edited by: koenheene on 29/Out/2009 3:09

Hello John and thank you for replying,
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Thanks again for the very good work,
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