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The Air's screen is outstanding in this regard. Usually you can trust Apple to not cut corners with this sort of stuff, so this is unfortunate. It's also strang

by bluthru 13y ago

The Air's screen is outstanding in this regard. Usually you can trust Apple to not cut corners with this sort of stuff, so this is unfortunate. It's also strange because the larger screen uses IGZO tech as well.

thisisdave 13y ago
Is it really that unfortunate? I've never noticed any color issues on my iPad 2. I don't use it for any color-intensive content creation, but in several years of use it never even occurred to me that there might be a problem with its color accuracy.
- Alterlife 13y ago
  At some point screens have to hit the 'good enough for most people' point just as processors did. Apple has apparently concluded that the 'good enough' point is x2... if that's true, it makes sense that they're not building devices above retina density if there is little quantifiable benefit to 99.9% of end-users. Atleast until the tech becomes much cheaper.
  - ZeroGravitas 13y ago
    It's really lucky for Apple that the "good enough" point happened to exactly coincide with double their old pixel densities (plural, since they had two different densities on the iPad and iPhone), almost unbelievably so in fact.
    - antimagic 13y ago
      That's... uh pretty disingenuous as an argument. The "good enough" point didn't have to be exactly the current densities, it just had to be less than the current densities... If the "good enough" point wasn't achieved with a doubling of the pixel resolution, Apple would still have doubled the pixel resolution, because exactly doubling brings a whole load of advantages from a technical or graphical design point of view. It's just that a few years later there would be another doubling until "good enough" had been surpassed.
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      - kabouseng 13y ago
        As long as Apple decides it's good enough...then it must be good enough. ;P
- megablast 13y ago
  Is it unfortunate that something is not as good as it could be? Of course it is, that is the exact correct word to use. Now like you, I don't care, I don't use my iPad mini for color intensive work either, but it still remains that it is unfortunate that it isn't better. It is clearly not a deal stopper.

by bluthru 13y ago

thisisdave 13y ago

Is it really that unfortunate? I've never noticed any color issues on my iPad 2. I don't use it for any color-intensive content creation, but in several years of use it never even occurred to me that there might be a problem with its color accuracy.

Alterlife 13y ago
At some point screens have to hit the 'good enough for most people' point just as processors did. Apple has apparently concluded that the 'good enough' point is x2... if that's true, it makes sense that they're not building devices above retina density if there is little quantifiable benefit to 99.9% of end-users. Atleast until the tech becomes much cheaper.
- ZeroGravitas 13y ago
  It's really lucky for Apple that the "good enough" point happened to exactly coincide with double their old pixel densities (plural, since they had two different densities on the iPad and iPhone), almost unbelievably so in fact.
  - antimagic 13y ago
    That's... uh pretty disingenuous as an argument. The "good enough" point didn't have to be exactly the current densities, it just had to be less than the current densities... If the "good enough" point wasn't achieved with a doubling of the pixel resolution, Apple would still have doubled the pixel resolution, because exactly doubling brings a whole load of advantages from a technical or graphical design point of view. It's just that a few years later there would be another doubling until "good enough" had been surpassed.
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    - kabouseng 13y ago
      As long as Apple decides it's good enough...then it must be good enough. ;P
megablast 13y ago
Is it unfortunate that something is not as good as it could be? Of course it is, that is the exact correct word to use. Now like you, I don't care, I don't use my iPad mini for color intensive work either, but it still remains that it is unfortunate that it isn't better. It is clearly not a deal stopper.