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foggyhill said:

josu said:

LCD screens degrade? When? Because my nine years old iPod Touch still looks bright and shiny to my eyes, even besides my sixth gen one. And my eight year old Laptop still looks the same even besides my year old retina one. I can't see the degradation, but OK maybe is that I'm accustomed to it, like when you are seeing a show for years and years and suddenly you see a first season episode and then notice how older the actors are now. Oh, I forgot, my seven year old LCD TV looks very good too.

I know, I know, you are arguing against OLED, and defending LCD, but I'm only asking, seriously. Because in the LCD front, the degradation must be negligible by now, given my experience with LCDs live span.

The backlight fades  with time, people often don't notice it because they just push the brightness up.

If you have a reallly old LCD which you put at its original setting, you'll see that. I have LCD's from 2002 and they;re DIM.
The 3GS I have is also certainly dimmer than initially at its default settings; I still use it as an Ipod.

With this, they could automatically adjust this over time to an exact level (which you can't do yourself without an instrument to calibrate the screen).

I have never change the brightness in the iPod as far as I remember. But I recognized that in the MacBook I push it all the way up, but is because I use it to watch TV Shows mostly, when not doing that I use it at mid level of brightness. But I do the same with my new one when I watch Netflix on it and when I use it for something like this, also at mid-level, and I don't see much more difference except the difference in display quality.

But anyway thanks for the explanation all I wanted to say is that LCD is a very mature technology, so life span has probably reached a level in which you can use it for many years, as you notice, you can still use a 13 years-old device, and back then LCD wasn't as good quality as 2007, or 2008 or 2009, that are my older LCD devices, At least the ones I used, I still have a 1998 PowerBook G3 that I swear it still works. The LCD quality, of course, dismal, but I have not turn it on since...I can't remember, many, many years.

foggyhill said:

staticx57 said:

Just as the Pro 9.7" has two calibration settings, the GS7 has calibration settings as well. One of which is calibrated sRGB and the other is calibrated AdobeRGB. Had you bothered to read the article you would have found out.

WHy the hell are you even here, what's your point? Same thing Goldfish here, always the same constant regurgitated pap about Android crap.

 When your OLED screen declines to also ran in 2 years, the LCD screen will be essentially the same.
 3 years later, still mostly the same (considering this one can even self adjust the screen for gray scale, even more so than before).

But, hey, hero worship, little dance, etc. Whatever.

LCD screens degrade? When? Because my nine years old iPod Touch still looks bright and shiny to my eyes, even besides my sixth gen one. And my eight year old Laptop still looks the same even besides my year old retina one. I can't see the degradation, but OK maybe is that I'm accustomed to it, like when you are seeing a show for years and years and suddenly you see a first season episode and then notice how older the actors are now. Oh, I forgot, my seven year old LCD TV looks very good too.

I know, I know, you are arguing against OLED, and defending LCD, but I'm only asking, seriously. Because in the LCD front, the degradation must be negligible by now, given my experience with LCDs live span.

nhughes said:

Eezibleed said:

It's not Kuo but the elevation of Kuo to well connected insider that rubs us raw. So drop that superlative please

Name an analyst with a better track record.

Our stories are written so that our large audience of casual readers, many of whom are not necessarily familiar with Kuo's name or past predictions, and who do not participate in the comments, get an idea of how reliable he is. Calling him a "well-connected insider" makes it clear to the reader that this isn't just some run-of-the-mill rumor. Doing so better informs our readers.

This is the exact same reason that we continue to tell readers that Gene Munster was the "Apple is going to build an HDTV by 2010" guy when he makes claims about an Apple Car or virtual reality. It's an editorial decision we've made, and it's not going to change unless Kuo's track record changes. But our commenters are, of course, welcome to continue criticize Kuo in the comments.

Well, Munster nailed the stock price in the iPod heyday, so I don't know why a mistake must ruin his reputation and Ming-Chi-Kuo saying that Apple will launch carbon fiber and titanium watches at the end of last year, not. Or saying that iPhone SE will be sold alongside the 5s, or reducing his sales forecasts of the SE due to the 5s selling for $250 from 20 million to 12 million, or saying that the first weekend sales of 5s will be more or less six million and being nine million...You get what you want. I have writing this EVERY TIME the guy is mentioned. Is good at product launches, the best, but forecasting sales no way. He has made at best the same mistakes as every other guy. OK, White is the most bullish analyst of Apple. But you must also said that Ming-Chi-Kuo is bearish in general. But the guy is good at PRODUCT LAUNCHES, only. And in that is not perfect either.

First, this forecast is a long shot, so he is making sales forecasts for all the year without any hard data of supply chain, he's more reliable source, a risky move.
Second, the guy is not that accurate in sales forecasts as is in product launches. And in this he lately predicted that the iPhone 5s would be sold alongside the SE for $250, not so accurate as we know now. Not to forget that when Apple launched the 5s he forecasted sales in the first week end between 6 to 8 million, but, as in this report, he thought they would be nearer six than eight, but they ended being 9 million.

Ming-Chi-Kuo is a supply chain expert, so he is accurate predicting a slow down in production, or the specifications of the next product launches, but his forecasts are made based on suppliers mostly. He was the first to speak about the iPhone SE, and the first to say that it was basically a 4" 6s, and he nailed, as usual. But in sales forecasts he make as much mistakes as everybody. Last year in the F3Q he overestimated by a huge margin the iPhone sales and underestimated the iPad ones, by nearly the same margin.

sog35 said:

josu said:

Sog it don't have anything to do with pirates as you say. It was the flag of the Macintosh development team.

Skull and Crossbones (Jolly Roger) is the universal sign of Pirates.

Guy you are awesome in your contumacy in the arguments. Look, there is an old Movie, in which Noah Wyle plays, very convincingly by the way, Steve Jobs, and the tile of the movie is "Pirates of Silicon Valley", the pirate flag have a symbolism in the early days of Apple because they see themselves as revolutionaries, as somebody who will brake the rules of the establishment, like it or not is in their history and it was the flag of the Macintosh development team. is part of Apple history. You can take the anecdotical issue and elevate to a problem. But is only that. An anecdotical issue based on the history of Apple.