The high-res screen has led to the second major criticism: apps that demand more storage. Apps tuned to take advantage of the new iPad's screen can be twice as big as the previous version of the app. Infinity Blade 2, for instance, leaps from 318 MBs to 791 MBs.

While this might seem bad enough, it gets a lot worse. App developers aren't allowed to create versions for different iPads. If you have an older iPad and update apps regularly (and really, who doesn't?), then you'll end up with the same big app tuned for the new iPad but unable to enjoy the benefits of the improved graphics.

"Thanks to the Retina display in Apple's , I just lost nearly 1 GB of storage space on my low-def iPad 2, and all I did was update seven applications," writes CIO.com blogger James A. Martin in his blog post .

This sounds like a serious problem-or is it? Fact is, app storage consumption pales in comparison to video and music. On my iPad 2, video and music take up 15GB of my 22.8GB used. It's also important to note that only a handful of iPad apps are graphics hogs and will make a dent in storage usage.

What the critics miss is that Apple has brought movies to its new iCloud service. I've bought nine movies on iTunes for my iPad, and they were taking up a ton of space. "Star Trek" is 4.3GB. Now seven movies reside in iCloud ready for me to download and watch, freeing up massive headroom in local iPad storage. (I don't subscribe to , at least not yet.)