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>That is simply impossible for two reasons: 1) Retina display is a trademarked Apple phrase and no other company will ever have retina displays. 2) Retina is no
by dmorgan 14y ago
>That is simply impossible for two reasons:
1) Retina display is a trademarked Apple phrase and no other company will ever have retina displays. 2) Retina is not a technology.
Useless pedantic "correction" of the day award.
If you want to be fully pedantic though, you're wrong on both counts:
1) Retina might be trademarked by Apple, but nothing stops another company to sign a deal with Apple to use the name for their displays. So, "impossible"? Hardly.
2) Retina is very much a technology. Or rather, what is the definition of technology? Something that requires specific construction that can be identified qualifies as a "technology". In this case, Retina is: a high dpi screen, where high is the level that is impossible or extremely difficult for a person with 20/20 vision to separate pixels when looking from the average viewing distance for that particular class of device. If it's also the name of a SPECIFIC implementation of such things by a PARTICULAR company doesn't matter much, people are not lawyers.
We use a brand name as a substitute for the technology it represents all the time in other fields too. Even PC was once "IBM PC".
- fuckernaut 14y agoActually, your post is more deserving of your little award. Congrats!
- dmorgan 14y agoThanks, but I did it ironically.