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Only reason I can see for this vertical stretch is to add more battery to power a 4G device. Yes, it's more pixels, and a lot people want more pixels, but aspec

Only reason I can see for this vertical stretch is to add more battery to power a 4G device. Yes, it's more pixels, and a lot people want more pixels, but aspect ratio was a deep design choice made many moons ago by Jobs. In the background, I see engineering getting a bit more clout under the industrial engineer CEO. And I wonder if culturally the institution is asking itself if perhaps nature truly cannot be pitched, bullied, or cajoled into what cannot be done. Cancer will do that to a family. http://www.zdnet.com/iphone-5-rumor-roundup-7000002138/ http://www.zdnet.com/iphone-5-rumor-roundup-7000002138/

andyman1080 14y ago
"aspect ratio was a deep design choice made many moons ago by Jobs" any source for this?
acqq 14y ago
The reason is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16:9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16:9 (divide then compare) Personally I don't like that format on notebooks as I prefer vertical space for programming, but I'm not asked anything... Still I think iPhone can be OK. Real "fullscreen" 16:9 videos on iPhone, if that's really going to be the resolution. Whatever.