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Apple Watch May Switch to Micro-LED Display in Mid 2017 or Later
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I can do selective quoting too: "
Basic Screen Mode with a Very Accurate Standard sRGB / Rec.709 Color Gamut
The Basic screen mode provides a very accurate Color and White Point calibration for the Standard sRGB / Rec.709 Color Gamut that is used to produce virtually all current consumer content for digital cameras, TVs, the internet, and computers, including photos, videos, and movies. The Color Gamut of the Basic screen mode is very accurate, with a nearly perfect 101 percent of the Standard sRGB / Rec.709 Color Gamut. Even better, the measured Absolute Color Accuracy for the Galaxy S7 Basic screen mode is an impressive 1.5 JNCD, tied with the Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 for the most color accurate displays that we have ever measured for a smartphone or tablet, which is visually indistinguishable from perfect, and is very likely considerably better than your living room TV.
As you know, there are 3 other screen modes on that S7 that customer can choose. Basic mode is an analog to the iPhone's LCD screen. Why would you quote info on the dynamic mode when it's intentionally saturated? If someone wants the most accurate color, according to the same DisplayMate you quoted, they should get an S7.
As I've said before, all of these screens are damn good and getting to the point where these arguments are completely irrelevant. When Apple switches to OLED/mOLED their customers will have the ability to choose modes as well (assuming Apple implements that feature)
Especially ones with lots of decimal places. They make me feel confident.
Of course... That's because the 9.7" iPad Pro is a newer model with a much improved display over the older 12" iPad Pro. The latest iPad Air has a better display than the original iPad. As expected, display technology improves with time.
98% of your quote is 87% accurate. 66% of that accuracy can be attributed to 100% of the meeting participants wearing watches. The other 34% of the accuracy can be attributed to fruit and pastry trays in said meetings. Therefore, I am 75% more likely to believe your percentages over the other guy. I'm giving him 25% on the believable meter simply because he chose the "go big or go home" number of 99%.
Maybe look at the post I'm responding to before you judge my motives. I'm not selectively quoting, I'm explaining what causes the "pop" that people are talking so much about. The "pop" is over-saturation.
To your point, however, if someone wants the most accurate color, according to DisplayMate, they should get an iPad Pro 9.7" (I'll choose magenta!):
The Absolute Color Accuracy of the iPad Pro 9.7 is Truly Impressive as shown in these Figures. It has an Absolute Color Accuracy of 1.3 JNCD for the sRGB / Red.709 Color Gamut used for most current consumer content and 1.4 JNCD for the Wider DCI-P3 Color Gamut used for 4K UHD TVs and Digital Cinema. It is the most color accurate display that we have ever measured. It is visually indistinguishable from perfect, and is very likely considerably better than any mobile display, monitor, TV or UHD TV that you have.
(Lower JNCD is better...)
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Are you a tweaker or something?
I'm happy that you're not the Apple Watch product manager.
Apple managed to create a device that pretty dramatically can change it's appearance based on what bands you use. Between that and the changeable faces, you end up with something that feel personal without doing a ton of fragmentation.
I understand what you started out doing. But then you started going down that road with Apple targeting accuracy as if others don't. That's not exactly the case.
Most accurate? Looks like they're leapfrogging now.
That's a good thing.Didn't the snake game have a green snake with a pink eye?
Time for the Crossy Road people to copy that.
Snakie Long Long or
Longey Snakey
comes to mind.
While I can see Apple's efforts to make this better with each issue, until
it is a stand alone device it is of no interest for this cowboy.
I can still manage to take out my phone with a bigger screen.
Shame Apple takes such a slow approach to adopting new technology. Apple watch is in desperate need of an upgrade, and it would be good if it made it in for Apple watch 2.
I really think Musk was right in his prediction t=that Apple watch 3 will be a good product. The way Tim manages though, might be Apple watch 4.
One day Apple will get it right..
I really think Musk was right in his prediction t=that Apple watch 3 will be a good product. The way Tim manages though, might be Apple watch 4.
One day Apple will get it right..
An actual sport watch would be lovely. We can call this fragmentation (for the most part I imagine the innards of the watch would be the same with the exception of possibly more battery, screen size, perhaps better sensors, etc) but some might prefer to call it choice. A watch is much more an extension of fashion and lifestyle than even a smartphone, I would say.
Regardless, one of the major things that has kept me from an Apple Watch is the lack of an actual sport watch. Apple uses the terms sport to mean "entry level". I suppose therenisnnothibgbnwrongnwith that, but it's really not a sport oriented watch in any way other than that it ships with a sweat resistant band.
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watch still does not sell officially in Bulgaria. thank you 
Well, I'm not convinced. Your analysis fails to identify the standard deviation or p-value.
Not completely true.
Quantum dot displays have the best color gamut.
OLED can be manufactured at high resolutions. Simply look at Samsung's OLED displays.
LED displays do tend to have better brightness, but OLED displays are being quickly improved to support higher brightness.
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What are you talking about? Every report on microLED says that the manufacturing costs are one of the main reasons it hasn't been implemented at scale yet.
As for color accuracy and calibration, you realize that the baseline technology doesn't prevent a manufacturer from tweaking for their desired specs right? By which I mean, my friend just got a goPro knockoff who's top screen is a monochromatic OLED. By your logic all OLED should be able to have great color accuracy. Well, this one IS OLED, just a specific implementation that isn't even in color. Wide brushes on a class of technology is foolish.
Or? Perhaps they would use the extra space for a bigger battery?
After all, don't a lot of people complain about the battery life?
I'm happy you are not the product manager of anything. With your thinking there would just be one model for every product made with choice of trim, and charge accordingly. But products do cater to specific desires and needs and should be built with those design considerations, not a big catch-all, jack-of-all-trades, master of none, as the AW is.
Let's take watches since that is the subject matter here. A sport watch, esp for running, biking, hiking, needs built-in GPS, a dress watch maybe not. A sport watch and a casual chronograph watch is usually big and exudes power. A formal dress watch should be thin and elegant. Merely changing bands does not convert a sport watch to a dress watch or vice versa. They are as different as a hammer and a mallet.
I really don't think you even understand what fragmentation is. It's creating two or more models so close to each other the consumer can't decide which to buy so buys nothing. Honestly that describes the current state of AW more than what I'm suggesting. Just look at the options one has to make when buying an AW. That is fragmentation. Fact is no other Apple product has more SKUs than AW. And the reality is whether you pay $250 or $2500, at the heart of it, it's the same watch, same basic look, same exact functionality.
So yes, offering unique Sport line, upscale line, racing line, each with their own unique look just as, say, a Rolex DateJust, a Rolex Daytona, and a Rolex Cellini would actually decrease fragmentation.
No. See above.
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Well it's not like anyone on this forum thinks Apple's current product line is too complicated / not simplified.