On: IPad 2 Likely to Have 2048x1536 Screen Resolution

[rdoherty]

Unless my math is wrong going from 1024x768 to 2048x1536 is quadrupling the resolution, not doubling, as the article states. Am I missing something?

[flyosity → rdoherty]

It's called '2x' resolution because it's twice as many pixels per dimension, and because you append "@2x" to image resources for them to be used in your app. It is 4x the pixels, but that I guess Apple figured that took slightly more brainpower than just imagining twice as many pixels tall, and twice as many pixels wide and calling it '2x'.

[code_duck → rdoherty]

It's doubling each dimension. Since you're multiplying the two numbers, that turns into 4 times the number of pixels.