Icons getting bigger and bigger!

In the old days, we had to draw an icon pixel per pixel. They were small and did the job very well. Now apple and microsoft seems to be fighting about who’ll accept the biggest icon! Microsoft announced 256×256 icons for the new Windows Vista OS! Apple came back with 512×512 icons for its Mac OS X Leopard! Ubuntu operating system even announced vector icons with undefined size!

The 512×512 picture below was taked from TurboMilk to show how big an icon of 512×512 will look in your screen, pretty big?

I can understand that they wanted bigger icons since the monitor and resolutions gott bigger and made the standards icons look smaller and smaller… but they are way too big!