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Re:What iPhone 6 screen size means for developers by interpol_p on Thursday September 11, 2014 @02:19AM (#8301148)
This is really interesting, it means that non-iPhone 6 apps are tricked into thinking they are rendering into a 320x568 logical buffer; but really a fractional scaling is applied to the UI views so that things like text labels and buttons render crisply into the larger resolution of the device without the app needing to be updated at all.
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Re:What iPhone 6 screen size means for developers by gurkendoktor on Thursday September 11, 2014 @01:14PM (#8303766)
This is not just a trick, it's a actually feature that the user can turn on throughout the system, look for "Zoom View":

http://www.apple.com/iphone-6/display/

This is going to be great for older users :) But it begs the question if there shouldn't be a similar feature on the iPad mini.

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