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Oh come on. Apple’s iPhone and iPad barely hits the mark there. They are overshooting nothing.

It’s a petty good approximate term that to my mind works perfectly well. Sure, things change depending on view distance but I guess nerds have to survive a term that’s not always exact. The horror!

That was an uninformed rant on your part. What are you suggesting as an alternative? High-PPI certainly does not work.



Apple’s iPhone and iPad barely hits the mark there.

Do you actually believe that the magical "retina" mark just coincidentally happened to be 2x Apple's original resolutions? How convenient!

It’s a petty good approximate term

It's a marketing term that the stupid embrace. Is a 64Kbps mp3 "eardrum audio" in a standard room with a fan? Is 128Kbps eardrum audio on a crummy mp3 player?

That was an uninformed rant on your part

What was uninformed about it? Desperately curious to hear what.


Allow me to roll my eyes at so much hypocrisy.


Granted, the MP3-comparison made no sense, but you are rolling your eyes to obvious observations.




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