Now that the new iPad is sporting a Retina Display, it's noticeable when an app isn't optimized for the sceen's high definition resolution. Fortunately, a good chunk of our favorite apps have been updated to work with the iPad, including Apple's apps, Facebook, and even Netflix, despite the fact that it might be a bit of a bandwidth killer for all that video. But, there are still a few slow movers in the App Store, and here's three we desperately wish would hurry up and optimize!
Hulu is pretty awesome on the iPad, especially paired with an Apple TV. Though the Apple TV doesn't have a native Hulu Plus app, you can use AirPlay to stream the app from the iPad to the living room to catch up on network television, or finally rewatch all those grueling seasons of LOST. But, unlike all its other popular counterparts, like Netflix, Apple Trailers, and ABC, Hulu still hasn't been updated for the iPad's Retina Display. It's a shame, because Hulu Plus is the first app we launch daily after a long day at work.
Dropbox sticks out like a sore thumb when it comes to productivity apps that have yet been optimized for the Retina Display. Evernote, Pages, Sketchbook Pro, iA Writer, Good Reader, have all been updated, while the most important app on our iPad has yet to see its own makeover. Those blurry-edged icons are starting to get to us.
If there is one set of apps we'd really, really love to see updated for the iPad's Retina Display, it's our favorite magazines. With the exception of Wired, almost everything on the newstand looks painfully low resolution on the iPad's shiny new display. We'd love to be wowed by Martha Stewart Living's media rich issues the way we were when we were reading them on our iPad 2s. And, unless the only magazine you read is Wired, we're sure you feel the same way. We know they'd take up lots of precious megabytes, but we'd still like to see the pictures in our magazines look as sharp as the photos we transfer over from our cameras.
Do you have an app you wish would get a boost for Retina Display? Let us know in the comments!
