What do you think of Apple's approach: almost a decade of OLED displays in smartphones, destroyed eyesight for thousands of people, and yet they have ONLY NOW managed to add PWM switch to an iPhone.
How can a large corporation ask money for accessibility feature that should have been there by default?
Moreover, how could they ignore user complaints (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) for SO MANY YEARS (2017-2025)?
Just think, the original MacRumors OLED PWM eye strain thread was created back in 2017. It took 8 years for Apple's engineers "to thoroughly study case and make their conclusions". It is beyond slow, it is almost atrocious level slow.
It genuinely makes me mad. Apple loves to brag about being "healthiest product", pulseoximeters all around, step counters, numerous trackers but they have been dismissing the "only 10%" minority who had TREMENDOUS eye strain and headache from OLED displays.
If you don't have eye strain from OLED I am SO GLAD FOR YOU, no need to write comments like "stop complaining go droid". Android is to blame that OLED happened on iPhones, specifically Samsung's AMOLED that people smh tend to "love". Lots of people (incl. me) have PWM eye strain. And the only solution to "buy 17 Pro". Insane!
My respects to Apple for adding this feature though, many people with obsolete/vintage iPhones who had to sit on old devices because of PWM now can freely go and buy adequate device with screen that you can make your own. Next logical step would be to add color profile switcher like on Mac, so you can use sRGB and disable temporal dithering/HDR functionality without low power mode.
Do you think Apple should have reacted faster and studied potential drawbacks of OLED screens before flooding market with them, or their decision that took 8 years was somewhat justified? Because tbh, apart from brightness increase and more Hz I hardly can see any difference in their displays from back then and now
How can a large corporation ask money for accessibility feature that should have been there by default?
Moreover, how could they ignore user complaints (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) for SO MANY YEARS (2017-2025)?
Just think, the original MacRumors OLED PWM eye strain thread was created back in 2017. It took 8 years for Apple's engineers "to thoroughly study case and make their conclusions". It is beyond slow, it is almost atrocious level slow.
It genuinely makes me mad. Apple loves to brag about being "healthiest product", pulseoximeters all around, step counters, numerous trackers but they have been dismissing the "only 10%" minority who had TREMENDOUS eye strain and headache from OLED displays.
If you don't have eye strain from OLED I am SO GLAD FOR YOU, no need to write comments like "stop complaining go droid". Android is to blame that OLED happened on iPhones, specifically Samsung's AMOLED that people smh tend to "love". Lots of people (incl. me) have PWM eye strain. And the only solution to "buy 17 Pro". Insane!
My respects to Apple for adding this feature though, many people with obsolete/vintage iPhones who had to sit on old devices because of PWM now can freely go and buy adequate device with screen that you can make your own. Next logical step would be to add color profile switcher like on Mac, so you can use sRGB and disable temporal dithering/HDR functionality without low power mode.
Do you think Apple should have reacted faster and studied potential drawbacks of OLED screens before flooding market with them, or their decision that took 8 years was somewhat justified? Because tbh, apart from brightness increase and more Hz I hardly can see any difference in their displays from back then and now
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