Once again, the entire tech industry is trying very hard to innovate ways to make larger screens
MOBILE. The ways that exist now:
- Folds
- Rolls
- Projector
- Virtual
#1 & #2 have well documented shortcomings and passionate "anti" stances posted in a thousand threads (likely to flip flop should Apple roll out their cut of either). But chief among them relative to
THIS post is as screen size scales up, so does size & weight. Imagine Vpro's 100" screen size as a fold or roll device. Look how
BIG that hardware is. Think how
HEAVY it would be. How many hinges & folds are needed for a mobile 100" screen? How many hinges & folds would it take to pack your biggest TV for "mobile" uses anywhere you go? How heavy is your 'unfolded' TV now, before we add all those hinges to try to make
it a mobile screen?
#3 & #4 can scale their screen sizes to about any size without scaling size & weight. But #3 generally has the requirement of a
dark environment to work well... and there's no privacy.
Only #4 works in brightest light or darkest night, at the
same size & weight,
anywhere someone happens to be.
We're so anxious to dance on the grave of Vpro (many of us were doing that
before it even launched or we even fully knew what it was) and yet the fall-back is what exactly? Folds & Rolls with fixed sizes, scaling weight with size, hinges & creases? Projectors which only work in relative darkness?
What do we want as the replacement tech that delivers bigger mobile screens from Apple? Even bigger brick phones? Much heavier MBs at 24" & 30", etc? How do you want to get to bigger mobile screens without a Vpro-type option?
For anyone who benefits from doing their computing on a screen larger than 16" (which is very likely many of us), here's a way to have such a screen wherever you are... high resolution sharp (unlike those "cheaper competitors") and "just works" with Apple stuff. This screen can be ANY size on demand... and user can put other screens around the giant screen if they want to keep up with or access other information while doing whatever we are doing on that giant screen.
But no. Let's just hate this. It's some kind of movement now. We can't see it any other way. We're married to one 'vision' with no capacity to "think different." We're committed to a cause that doesn't even have to affect those who don't like/want this product. Apparently, we'd rather watch our movies on the airplane on a relatively tiny iDevice screen... or try to do our work on a relatively tiny (and open to all nearby eyes) laptop screen assuming we have the room to even use a MB in cramped aisle 17C seating.
If we step back and take a fresh look at this thing, it's NOT something everyone must buy (so if you don't like it, ignore it). It is a new and effective cut at the INDUSTRY goal of BIGGER
mobile screens
on demand without having to scale size, weight and/or need towards darkness to use. You get complete privacy of whatever you are viewing (unlike the other 3 options) and you can summon that giant screen ANYWHERE... including the cramped quarters of seat 17C... where you may not even have enough room to open a tiny 14" MB. There's no hinges, no creases, no physical spatial requirements to place this enormous screen. It can seem to exist well out in front of you even if seat 16C is only a matter of inches in front of your face.
But let's just keep trying to will this thing away though... and look forward to then trying to replace the ongoing broad market want for larger mobile screens with relatively tiny fold/roll options... or projectors... because that will be so much better than an any-size, private screen at a fixed size & weight small enough to take with us on the go and displays well in bright light or dark night.
"Think different!"
