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  • Rumored iOS 18 Siri boost will be driven by massive acquisitions over years

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    gatorguy said: A nicely detailed post, but you could have saved the effort if you had paid attention to what I said: Was, when it was first employed, not is. I agree with your "is". 
    I don't think that is true. Retina was probably designed as not resolution specific from the beginning, following emerging industry trends. Retina and the parallel HiDPI standard in Windows and Android were the same response to the fact that if something was not done to compensate, the increasing resolution of monitors would have made text and UI tinier and tinier until they were impossible to read. The concept of distance-adjusted scale factors had to be implemented if that problem was to be avoided.

    It seems very unlikely that one year Apple decided to say "We have xxx dpi." That has no long term road map. The actual Retina explanation fits into a much bigger picture and road map that the entire industry was following.
    jony0

  • Apple TV+ has a lot of content coming in 2024

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    Two Franklin series? They should just combine "Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin" with "Franklin":
    It is about Benjamin Franklin's journey during the American Revolution. Being 70 years old and having no diplomatic training, he struggles to fit in with the Peanuts gang, until Franklin discovers the neighborhood kite competition. He teams up with Charlie Brown to build an innovative new "lightning kite" and an even greater friendship.



    williamlondonroundaboutnowdewmemattinoz

  • Rumored iOS 18 Siri boost will be driven by massive acquisitions over years

    ClarusClarus
    gatorguy said:

    Apple said Retina Display which was qHD or QVGA.
    Part of your unhappiness may be from over-simplifying at least one of those terms.
    Because you definitely over-simplified Retina.

    You mentioned Retina being the equivalent of this or that standard fixed resolution. That is plainly wrong. Retina has never referred to a specific hard resolution, that is not how things work now.

    Retina is more about the Device Independent Pixel (DIP), which is an industry-wide concept driving standards like CSS.

    The DPI resolution of the DIP is not a single fixed number. This is where you ran into trouble. The pixel size of the DIP is corrected for display pixel density and viewing distance, and the way they quantify this consistently is defining the DIP as a specific angle of view. This allows an object to be displayed at a constant apparent size to the eye, because the DIP corrects for screens being viewed at phone distance vs computer distance vs billboard distance.

    That is why Retina for a phone is a different DPI resolution that Retina for a laptop screen.

    The other way your analogy falls down is that if you look through all the desktop and mobile Retina screens Apple has made since 2012, the DPIs are all over the place! And many do not exactly match your QHD or QVGA!

    The uninformed view is that Retina doesn’t mean anything, but the informed view is that all those DPI values make total sense after you learn that they are consistent with what the DIP size should be at each device’s viewing distance.
    mattinozjony0

  • Elgato will disrupt the teleprompter market with its $280 Prompter

    ClarusClarus
    They are going to sell approximately 7 gazillion of these. I'm seriously considering it.

    It's not clear from the downloadable manual how the software hooks it up. The funny thing is, although it looks like it will appear as an additional USB-C display extending the macOS desktop, I am sort of hoping it does it a different way. The reason is the artificial limits Apple puts on multiple displays out of MacBooks. I already hang 2 desktop monitors off my 14" MacBook Pro, so it will refuse to add any more monitors. Similarly, a MacBook Air user already running 1 external display will not be able to add another monitor.
    watto_cobra

  • Apple's live events are probably a thing of the past, and that's sad

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    What I’m reading is that there are really only two reasons to prefer live keynotes: “But…remember when Steve Jobs…” and “embrace the chaos.” Well….

    Steve Jobs is dead. If you want another Steve Jobs keynote moment, you are going to have to get another Steve Jobs on stage. Where is he? Is it Tim Cook? No. Is it Craig Federighi? No. Steve Jobs is dead.

    ”Embrace the chaos” is just a euphemism for “We wanna be there when stuff goes wrong.” Why is that? How does it help? I’m sorry, but “Embrace the chaos” sounds a lot like “Some people are here for the technical team craft of auto racing and all its details, but we are here just in case there’s a car crash.” You really want to be flown out to Apple Park just for that?

    The live events aren’t any more human than the recorded ones, because the live ones were so tightly scripted. Has anyone looked at how much more time we saved by not having to sit through all the applause and breaks when people walk on and off stage?
    radarthekatwatto_cobra