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It is because the PC industry doesn't innovate. It was driven to commoditization and 4 to 5 percent profit margins.
by jyap 14y ago
It is because the PC industry doesn't innovate. It was driven to commoditization and 4 to 5 percent profit margins.
- michaelt 14y agoUntil recently, graphics scaling didn't work very well - so high resolution meant tiny icons and text over-running its allocated space. OS and software vendors didn't fix this because no-one had high resolution displays, and display makers didn't make high resolution displays because everything looked like ass. I'm not a big apple user, but I'll admit there are times when having the hardware and OS designed under the same command has its advantages.
- Zak 14y agoI'm inclined to think that since Windows 2000 or so, the OS provided the functionality a vendor would have needed to include some sort of zoom-and-smooth software so as to render vector fonts sharply and bitmaps at sane sizes. That nobody made the effort is yet one more symptom of the general lack of courage and originality in the PC market.