Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 7th Mar 2012 22:59 UTC
And it was that time of the year again - Apple held one of its product announcements. This one focussed on the iPad mostly, and while some will call it a disappointment merely because virtually everything had already been leaked, I'm still in awe over the fact the newly announced iPad has a 2048x1536 display. My mind is blown.
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RE: display developed by Apple
by puenktchen on Thu 8th Mar 2012 12:44
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by alexz on Thu 8th Mar 2012 13:35
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Not sure if they designed these ones, but on the first two ipads they had two manufacturers with visible difference between screens. If it was a single design, they would be identical. There's no such thing as "artistic" difference among manufacturers that could explain the difference when it comes to making a product following defined specs.
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by nefer on Thu 8th Mar 2012 21:57
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The sentiment on this board is that if you don't manufacture things yourself, you're basically a rip off of other peoples technology. Or at least you are if your company name is Apple.
What most so-called pundits fail to realize here though is that Apple often makes significant investments in putting together assembly lines at other companies to run these assembly lines for them - with technology they engineered.
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by smashIt on Thu 8th Mar 2012 15:21
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RE: display developed by Apple
by zima on Wed 14th Mar 2012 23:38
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Keep in mind, especially with a public-facing webpage, how it's not only from a company very focused on marketing ...but also on a marketing of not always the best integrity.
They also had, a decade ago, whole pages devoted to PowerPC "supercomputer on a chip" G4, based on few hand-optimised, hand-picked edge scenarios of SIMD benchmarks (few Photoshop filters and such) - all the while what was available on the PC side generally basically destroyed them, performance-wise.
Such dubious, at best, PR is in their blood since the earliest years... for example http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2005/12/total-share.ars/3 (considering, apparently, some hardships at the time mentioned in that article, it's even remotely conceivable that the company would fold a long time ago, without such lies... emphasis mine)
Apple's response to being in third place involved the genius of Regis McKenna, the former Intel PR executive who had spearheaded "Operation Crush," the predecessor of the "Intel Inside" campaign. McKenna decided that what the company needed was great marketing, so all advertising for the Apple ][ was glossy and rich, and some ads even claimed that the Apple ][ was the "best-selling personal computer." It had nowhere near such status at the time.
Or consider how frighteningly large proportion of OSX users seems to believe they are immune from online threats ...basically because Apple says them so (while their OS doesn't have very impressive record on some annual hacking contests; while iOS has, from time to time, a "jailbreak in a browser" - really, a root exploit for any random webpage)
This here with displays might as well be largely a marketspeak for people who don't even know anyway that, say, Apple doesn't strictly build any of their stuff.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/20/13 22:43 UTC
The Verge pointed me to a blog post by Leap Motion - which reveals how their Kinect-like motion control works with Windows 8. "From the second you plug in your Leap Motion Controller, you'll be able to browse the web and interact with your computer just by moving your hands and fingers in the air. With Leap Motion technology and Windows, you can do everything that's possible with multi-touch inputs - without actually touching anything. This also means that existing applications in Windows 7 and 8 will respond to your natural hand and finger movements. Soon, we'll show you how Leap Motion will work with Mac OS X." Quite cool.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/20/13 21:50 UTC
PocketNow interviews Marc Dillon, and there's an interesting note about why Jolla is keeping the display properties under wraps: "We're leaving some of those details out because we do understand that there are a lot of really big players in the market and they tend to take certain components in the market and dominate them. We created the ability to actually be able to run Sailfish on multiple hardware displays and be able to swap components, so this is part of the demand and supply planning phase. We are committed to this industrial design which is a 4.5-inch display, an 8 megapixel camera on the back and a front-facing camera at the front, and the exact specs of the display we'll provide when we're close to delivery." Something you rarely hear anything about.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/19/13 23:15 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/19/13 23:11 UTC, submitted by Drumhellar
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 7:37 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/17/13 23:35 UTC, submitted by kragil
Ars nails it: "The answer is that Google did announce what amounts to a fairly substantial Android update yesterday. They simply did it without adding to the update fragmentation problems that continue to plague the platform. By focusing on these changes and not the apparently-waiting-in-the-wings update to the core software, Google is showing us one of the ways in which it's trying to fix the update problem."
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/17/13 22:15 UTC, submitted by Tom
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@ Thom:
and sure, this display has probably been developed by LG or whatever
Apple did claim they developed the technology themselves. They say the same on their webpage:
In order to create a display with four times the pixels, we had to design it in a completely new way.
And for the Iphone 4:
By developing pixels a mere 78 micrometers wide, Apple engineers were able to pack four times the number of pixels into the 3.5-inch (diagonal) screen found on iPhone 4S and iPhone 4.
Apple has also filed several lcd patents, so they really seem to do their own research.
edit: http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2010/08/apple-patents-p...
Edited 2012-03-08 09:15 UTC