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Setting a new standard, that's for sure. Thank god you can't patent a simple increase in the number of pixels on a screen.
by houseabsolute 16y ago
Setting a new standard, that's for sure. Thank god you can't patent a simple increase in the number of pixels on a screen.
- killedbydeath 16y agoLooks more like an incremental arms race, just like with camera resolutions: iPhone 3GS: 480 x 320 (~ 1 year ago) Motorola Droid: 800 x 480 (~7 months ago) iPhone 4: 960 x 640
- Groxx 16y agoWinners: us.
- HolyoakeD 16y agoWho is 'us'?
- cheald 16y agoThe people that have the benefit of using the technology, no matter whether it's Android or Apple. Competition is driving manufacturers to produce higher-spec devices in the hopes of winning customers. The iPhone languished at 320×480 for a long while (and really, I'll betcha Apple would have loved to keep it there, as a lower-resolution display takes less battery power to drive, and produces higher framerates in games, etc), and then all of a sudden, Android devices with shiny high-res displays started showing up, and Apple was compelled to counter with its own offering.
- unwind 16y agoIt would be awesome to, once in your lifetime, create something that manages to "languish" like the iPhone did, then. :)
- cheald 16y agoNo doubt. Perhaps the wrong choice of word, but what I meant is that Apple wasn't pushing higher-res displays, despite advancements in display technology, until their competition did. They were content to let the iPhone stay at a relatively low resolution until it became a point that they had to compete on.
- HolyoakeD 16y agoI clearly misunderstood the parent. Apologies. It seems obvious now. Thanks for your answer.
- cpr 16y agoI disagree. If it's Jobs driving things (and he is), he'd be pushing for as high a resolution as they could afford in their power and dollar budgets; he's always been a typophile. It's only at this point that it has become generally feasible. (Yes, Android beat them by a few months, but such are the technology cycles. Apple started the iPhone 4 development 18 months ago, according to what was said at WWDC.)