With the WWDC Keynote usually a couple of days away, the time for throwing warning to the breeze and jumping on any throw of provocative data has begun. Today's firestorm of conjecture starts with an app with encouragement for a Retina manifestation looming in the Mac App store.
Specifically, The Next Web found an app with new "Retina graphics" encouragement in the Mac App store on Friday morning. The FolderWatch app was
MacBooks with Retina displays have been rumored to make an look at WWDC. The loudest of these rumors concerns a 15-inch MacBook Pro with a thinner formfactor, a Retina display, USB 3.0, and the repudiation of an visual drive.
The Macbook Air and iMac are moreover rumored to take the Retina manifestation treatment at a few point, but it's misleading either they would show up at WWDC with the new screens.
At initial glance, it would show up that the developer of FolderWatch has insider data about Apple's skeleton for Monday's keynote, but that's an doubtful proposition. According to a Twitter post in reply to questions about the app's Retina graphics support, the developer of the app, Brother Roloff, posted this : "By "retina graphics" we're simply referring to HiDPI (a.k.a. @2x graphics). We are unaware what Apple will show at WWDC."
Apple has had encouragement for HiDPI displays in Lion, and has
It's probable that Apple could brand HiDPI displays in new MacBooks and iMacs as Retina displays. But until Apple obviously takes the theatre and announces new hardware, you unequivocally won't know.
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