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>some sort of Retina? The power of Apple's marketing cannot be overstated here. You're referring to a Microsoft screen by an Apple trademark.
by LockeWatts 14y ago
>some sort of Retina?
The power of Apple's marketing cannot be overstated here. You're referring to a Microsoft screen by an Apple trademark.
- ThomPete 14y agoHeh yeah well. First mover advantage I guess. And apple of course had it right. If you want to bring something new to the table, call it something new. Don't mix unrelated terms in a monster called ClearType HD Display.
- InclinedPlane 14y agoSomething new, and meaningful too. Retina is a specific reference to the limits of the human eye, it tells you pretty directly what DPI a display should have at a given viewing distance.
- robryan 14y agoWhat other terms are there to use appart from specifics like resolution of DPI. There was HD and Full HD, but what does it make these new screens?
- mkr-hn 14y agoJust like how we used to call our computers IBM PC compatible.
- Arvuvg 14y agoI think the best part about all the people making the comment about "Microsoft trying to copy Apple's Retina" is that Microsoft's "ClearType" has been around for so, so many years longer (I remember seeing it in Windows XP, but it may have even come in before that).
- eurleif 14y agoMicrosoft has been using the name ClearType for years, but for something completely different: subpixel hinted font rendering. This "ClearType display" has nothing to do with that, besides the name.
- Arvuvg 14y agoFrom what I've read, this is just their continual expansion of ClearType (which was not intended to be synonymous with subpixel font rendering, but rather a larger framework for which the subpixel font rendering was merely a component).