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For as long as the web has been around, web designers have been optimising images for relatively low resolutions due to the limitations in monitors. With the release of the iPhone 4 in 2010 (with high resolution Retina display) it meant you could now view things in a much higher resolution. But while many apps may have been re-developed to suit the high resolution display, it didn’t really force web designers to change the way they build websites. This was because the screen is so small, the amount of pixels shown is only the same as a typical website anyway so by default the majority of websites looked great on them (i.e. website was shown half the size and therefore doubling the resolution was fine).