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Reply to: by daggar
Actually, retina means that Apple made some hand-wavy arguments that ‘one cannot determine individual pixels’ citing a couple of dubious research papers in the process. Retina is a marketing term with little more scientific value than Camel Cigarette’s T-Zone.
Also, I— and many people I know— hold my phone and my tablet at about the same distance from my face, so the argument that a tablet can get by with a lower-density screen and still be ‘retina’ is highly suspect indeed.
Oh, and even if the eye couldn’t determine individual pixels, it can still pick out much finer details than whether it can isolate an individual point of light. As soon as those pixels compose a color gradient, a smooth curve, or a letter or other glyph, the eye’s ability to perceive fine details gets much higher.
Reply to: by daggar
Actually, retina means that Apple made some hand-wavy arguments that ‘one cannot determine individual pixels’ citing a couple of dubious research papers in the process. Retina is a marketing term with little more scientific value than Camel Cigarette’s T-Zone.
Also, I— and many people I know— hold my phone and my tablet at about the same distance from my face, so the argument that a tablet can get by with a lower-density screen and still be ‘retina’ is highly suspect indeed.
Oh, and even if the eye couldn’t determine individual pixels, it can still pick out much finer details than whether it can isolate an individual point of light. As soon as those pixels compose a color gradient, a smooth curve, or a letter or other glyph, the eye’s ability to perceive fine details gets much higher.