I think a lot of people believe the Retina screen is some kind of new and improved technology designed to make LCDs easier to read. Basically, the Retina screen is little more than Apple propoganda and marketing. Apple increased the resolution on their 3.5" iPhone/touch screen to 960 x 640 effectively doubling the original resolution of 480 x 320 which was pretty standard in the PDA era. The Retina display provides 614,400 pixels of resolution in a 3.5" diagonal screen. Sounds good, right? Well it is better than the old screens, but compared to many digital point and shoot cameras with 3" screens it is just average. My Canon T1i dSLR has a 3" screen with 920,000 pixels. That is a smaller screen with half again as many pixels as Apple's Retina screen, and more pixels than the current iPads (which have 786,482). There is absolutely nothing magical about the Retina display other than Apple added better resolution, but it isn't as good as many camera screens yet. Oh, and those camera screens have been around longer than the iPhone, so once again Apple is claiming innovation when their product is still lagging behind what others invented long ago.

I do hope Apple will increase the screen resolution of a future iPad. But if they do it will merely be a step up in resolution, though I'm sure Apple will try to make it look like a technological miracle.