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I don't think so. Even desktop OSes are not ready for such vast differences of today's hardwares.

Desktop-PC usually have approximately 100dpi screens, so the OS and the app generally don't consider dpi differences. So, if you've ever got a high dpi screen for Windows, you'll see the icons are frigging small.

Whereas, on mobile platform, we have screens ranging from 80dpi to above 300dpi. Android take dpi differences into account in the first place, to make sure, a same icon have almost same size on different dpi screens. It's a start.

I much doubted Microsoft or Apple would deal better with 'retina' desktop-pc coming in. Real trouble have just begun...




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