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I see this point as being fairly pessimistic. It's not saying that Retina screens are completely fantastic (although they are), but that many of the other tech
by jasondenizac 14y ago
I see this point as being fairly pessimistic. It's not saying that Retina screens are completely fantastic (although they are), but that many of the other tech revolutions won't have the impact on the mainstream that we expect them to. High pixel density displays, on the other hand, will touch anyone who spends much time at all looking at screens, and will change how interfaces are made.
That said, 10 years is an eternity in this business.
- Smudge 14y agoAssuming screens stick around. Perhaps it's a long-shot prediction, but what if Retina is the Blu-ray of flat panel displays? (Inarguably superior to most of its predecessors, yet fails to gain critical mass and is soon replaced by a whole new medium altogether.)
- beggi 14y agoUm, what medium could that be? I don't see any competitors to the screen right around the corner
- Smudge 14y agoAgain, a total long shot. But I was thinking both in terms of augmented-reality (Google Goggles) and bigger transparent glass-like displays (Samsung Smart Window). But whatever it is, it would only catch on if Apple releases it.
- Roedou 14y agogs/Goggles/Glass (I make the same mistake all the time.) I broadly agree with you. However, I don't think that Project Glass will replace desktops / traditional computers, but I could see them being a replacement for tablets - in that it's the way most people will do un-intensive browsing, cheicking emails while sat on the sofa, etc.
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- ams6110 14y agoI was more reminded of Nicholas Negroponte's 1995 book Being Digital in which he said (paraphrasing based on recollection) that HDTV was a mistake; that we we could do better things with digital television than simply increasing the resolution. Retina may be great, seen side-by-side with a normal display, but it's really just "more of the same."