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sog35 said:

jbdragon said:

sog35 said:

Good.

Curved screens are so stupid.

The early TV's were all curved.  Then it was a HUGE deal when we got flat TV's. Now we want curved iPhone screens? Hell no.

We leave those crappy curved screens with Samdung

I havn't seen 1 TV Reviewer that said the curved screen added anything to watching experience and in fact made things worse for those sitting off to the sides. I see them in Best Buy and I just don't get it. It's beyond dumb. Just because you can do it, doesn't mean you should do it. I don't get the whole Edge thing either on the Samesung phones. I've looked at them and I don't get it. Really, all it is, it yet another Gimmick from them. That's because if it's not a part of Android, it's a part of TouchWiz and so really has no 3rd party support. That would be a advantage for Apple as it would actually be a part of iOS, but even then I still would think of it as a Gimmick. Plus really flat out COPYING if Apple did the same dumb thing. If that is what Apple had planned, shame on them. We're 6 months away from a launch so most of these RUMORS are really a load of crap.

Actually I was talking about the CRT TV's from the 70s and 80s. It had a curve to them.

Then in the 90s flat TV's were coming out and everyone was so excited. Makes no sense to go back to curved displays.

And yes those curved modern TV's are pure stupidity. So much so most manufacters don't make them anymore.

TVs used to be curved outwards because a) a curved screen was easier to manufacture, and b) the curve provided structural integrity given that it was one big vacuum tube. Producing a Cathode Ray Tube with a flat screen was difficult, the best solution was the Sony Trinitron which was a cylindrical section of glass, rather than a spherical section. The reason we suddenly went to "flat" screens was that LCD displays suddenly got a lot cheaper. LCDs were easier to manufacture as flat sheets, and since they didn't have a massive vacuum behind them there was no reason to make them curve. Also, it avoided problems with the electron gun losing focus, and spherical aberration of the image at the edges.

Modern curved TVs are curved inwards, because of some idea about having all parts of the screen equidistant from the viewers' eyes (provided they sit at the focus), or providing a "surround" image. It costs way too much for basically putting an LCD screen on a curved bit of plastic (yes, I know there was some clever engineering that went into doing that, but really...), and is mostly of any value as a marketing gimmick.

Curved phones, though, are a different matter. Is the whole screen curved? Is it just at the edges? Is it concave or convex? Does it serve any actual function, rather than showing off your manufacturing ability? Does it improve the way the phone feels in the hand? Does it make it easier to accidentally activate interface objects because of how you hold your phone? To me, it seems like a solution in search of a problem. It will add cost to manufacturing, and not really deliver any value in usability.

spice-boy said:

Does anyone that has the new MacBook like it? Maybe Apple spent too much effort on that "nobody asked for it" led strip and forgot about what a pro needs from a pro machine. 

dick applebaum said:

Rayz2016 said:

dick applebaum said:

Couldn't multiple Apple ARM chips be used to outperform a single Intel chip?

Good question. 

Or a Single IBM Power chip vs an Intel Chip:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_POWER_microprocessors