The Retina Display Pixel by Pixel

So when Apple presented the iPhone 4's "Retina" display at the WWDC it certainly did raise a few eyebrows and spawned quite a few discussions on whether or not Apple's claim of the human eye's incapability of distinguishing pixels on the display are in fact true. However, nothing quite describes the resolution of the display like a pixel-by-pixel screenshot. View it on your low res display here (make sure to zoom to actual size) and then imagine all that visual glory on an 8 cm x 5 cm pane. Hell, it doesn't even fit on my MacBook screen!

On a side-note here, it is interesting to note that Apple has been attempting to introduce a resolution independent version of Mac OS X ever since 10.4 (Tiger). Rumor was that Apple had some super high-def displays up their sleeves. However, it proved too difficult to get the application developers to support the varying scale levels. I assume that Apple found their golden opportunity with the iPhone, where the UI follows a more streamlined approach, making the step towards resolution independent apps much less painful. Let's see if they find a way to port this back to the Mac. As some have said, who have witnessed the Retina Display first hand: You won't want to go back.