The release of the new iPad with the Retina screen was happy news for Apple users, as this allowed them to have an unprecedented screen quality, but as we have already indicated, this is an additional burden on developers as they have to redesign all their iPad and universal applications to fit the new size of this screen and restore it. The design means that all application graphics are re-designed in a large size to fit the Retina screen and then smaller to fit the old iPad. Why can't the designer just enlarge the pictures? And why should the design be redone? The reason is that if the images are enlarged, they lose their resolution and become blurred. As for the large pictures when they are minimized, they are not affected, and updates have already been issued to a number of applications and games to fit the new size. And we review some of the most famous applications and the change that took place after Reina and the defects of this matter?

 

The beginning of the applications that got updates is the Apple programs, of course, and the Pages application (similar to Word) got an update and became its size 289 MB after 95 MB The Numbers app (similar to Excel) moved from 109 MB To become 283 MB The popular video processing app, iMovie, got a huge update to become Its size is 404 Mega after that 70 MB Only doubled in size more than 5 times.

Why this large increase in the size of the application, the reason is the terrible size of the Reina screen and the addition of each image in this size in addition to all the previous contents of the application, and in the case of a video, the video quality must also be modified because the new large screen size makes the traditional video not appear as good as usual, and this is the reason Increasing spaces in applications. But Apple's applications got updates to add features along with the new Ritna support, for example the iMovie application is considered the owner of the largest change in size, as it became 404 MB and this is because in addition to it not only includes pictures and buttons that must be changed size, but also includes video clips, and Apple added 17 audio clips, most of them It has an area of ​​approximately 2 megabytes, and also there are more than 180 short video clips that we have added, and these additions only were the reason for the 100 MB increase from the previous change.

Pages also got a big update, and the user may think that it does not contain a large number of changes because it is just an application that enables you to write texts and tables, but the application has more than 1000 images, all of them have been modified to become our vision, which means a big change in size. The famous Twitter application also got  Tweetbot Also, an update will be made to a size of 25 MB instead of 9 MB. You can see the following table that shows some of the updated applications and the change in their sizes after you see us.

The problem is more in big games and we do not mean by big games like angry birds, as these games are small in size, despite their popularity, but they do not contain many details, but huge games are action games, car racing games or sports games such as FIFA 2011, which reached a size of 1.26 and Also The 2012 version is 1.06 GB This type of games contains thousands of pictures, models and videos, and it should be noted that the size of 1.06 GB is the size of the application since last December, that is, before the release of Retina, which means that an update can occur and increase the size: D and maybe up to 1.5 GB. Let us imagine this space in one game only!

Now suppose you want to download three games, let it be an adventure game, like Infinity Blade 2 with its new 781 MB size, a soccer game of 1.5 GB, and then two productivity management apps such as Pages and Numbers, an iMovie video editing app, an iPhoto photo editing app, and one of the most popular action apps like Modern Combat with a gigabyte size, then two books Two users TextBook size of one and a half gigabytes for each of them, we find the final result of 8 gigabytes ... that is, the result of loading 3 games, 4 applications and two books is 8 gigabytes. So if I added some important applications such as a chat program, Twitter and Facebook, a business program, and a Quran to reach the size of 10 GB which means Buying a new 16 GB iPad is useless because the maximum capacity will be approximately 14.5 GB, and now I used 10 GB of them to download less than 10 programs, so how is it if you have more than a hundred applications, for example? Dozens of books and audio files? The 64GB version may not be enough for you.

This problem is not only faced by the user who owns a 16GB iPad, but also for the 16GB iPhone user, as all the universal applications he has will get updates to include the iPad version, and the size is increasing and he will have to delete applications due to lack of space. Therefore, each programmer will try to reduce the size of his application as much as possible, but the best solution is to divide the applications and move away from the universal, and there is an application dedicated to the iPad and another dedicated to the iPhone. This is a good and ideal solution to reduce the size, but it means that the user will buy the same application more than once, and this is an additional cost.

 Conclusion Although the Retina screen is wonderful, this comes at a price because the presence of the Retina screen means an additional indirect cost to the user. Either he pays an additional amount to buy the large iPad capacity (and the iPhone thus), or he pays more than once to buy the application twice, one for the iPad and another for a device His iPhone.

After I read the space problem because of Reitna and you were intending to buy a new iPad, do you still think that the 16 GB version is sufficient?

Source | cnet

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