Pfff, like China's an important market.
It is. It accounts for 15-20 percent of apple revenues.
Pfff, like China's an important market.
Pfff, like China's an important market.
And then on the following day of their release you will find articles about how there were no long lines of people in front of Apple stores, even though pick ups will be by appointment only. Stock will drop. Just watch.
If Apple never designed their portables with Retina Display nobody would've cared. It's not like all their LCD laden products sucked before Retina came out.
That is like saying if we didn't have HD tv's we would never no the difference. To release a portable with that resolution in 2012/2013 is just poor. Once you have had something good it is hard to go back. I could never imagine owning a tube tv.
That's a poor analogy unless you add in that this tube tv (I know this isn't possible physically, but it makes the analogy work) was incorporated into a new television so thin, light and flexible that you could roll it up and take it with you extremely easily. The (tube) screen is obviously not as good as other offerings and newer technologies, but the tech that went into this new device is new and that is what makes this new television, which you can roll up, so exciting and amazing.
well....USA will be presenting the 2nd gen version in less than a couple months...
I am 100% talking about the screen quality....not the form factor. All else equal....going back to a tube screen vs an HD screen is a big difference (retina/HD to standard def)
If Apple never designed their portables with Retina Display nobody would've cared. It's not like all their LCD laden products sucked before Retina came out.
You're right, they should have stuck with the 336 x 240 LCD from the Newton and no one would have ever known any better.
Or not, my $199 Nexus7 has a higher resolution display than the $329 iPad Mini.
But there's always a context, and this conversation started with Apple products not incorporating retina, and then it went suddenly to just the screen and ignored the context with your tube tv analogy. I simply completed your (very good) analogy.
But focusing in on a single item and taking it out of context (and it's not just screens, its RAM and CPU and on and on) provides an easy way for some (not saying you, this isn't focused at you at all) to judge negatively and slam the whole product because of one item or component, ignoring all the rest, and some believe when you can contradict, be negative or slam something, then that demonstrates superiority.
just run software update
Independent of the scale of the retail presence, the real news is the full support for two major dialects of Chinese on a "smartphone" which is a stealth handtop supercomputer. Soon to be in the hands of millions of Chinese. That's a thing.
And a walled garden even a red Chinese can be comfortable with!
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