Earlier today during the Apple Event ^[1] as Apple was showcasing the new iPad ^[2], one thought which ran across most people’s mind was – “What about apps ? Will the existing ones work?”

To answer that – yes, the existing apps will work. As Apple had demonstrated during the event, existing iPhone / iPod Touch ^[3] apps will run in two modes – one with the same resolution as the iPhone , at 320×240 centred on the iPad ^[2] screen.

The apps can also make full use of the real estate, albeit in a zoomed manner. While this seems good, the flip side to this would be that the difference in resolution ( 320×240 for the iPhone / iPod Touch ^[3] versus 1024×768 for the iPad) – would mean that the apps might not look as pretty since the image is going to be stretched a wee-bit more than 3 times the original resolution.

Apple has made available the iPad SDK to developers ^[4], so it shouldn’t be long before developers tweak their existing apps to suit the iPad’s gorgeous new high-res screen.