The Retina War is upon us.
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The Retina War is upon us.
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#2I think that Retina resolution displays will dominate the field in much less time than ten years: Since every mobile device maker has to match Apple I'd bet that by next year every new phone and tablet will feature a higher resolution screen. maybe that won't be 256, but maybe it will be at least 150. Then you can bet that in at least two years you'll see the same thing happen on laptops — and desktops will have to follow within five years.
The truth be told: It's sort of shocking to think that we've been using 72/96 for so long, I would have expected this shift to have happened ten years ago.
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#32x scaled from 1x - Bicubic
(Nearest Neighbor produced identical results)
Sorry, then whatever software you're using to scale it is broken. The image pictured is obviously nearest neighbor; rescale with bicubic and it will look smooth but blurry.
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#4I really think the @2x hack is absolutely revolting.
sigh...
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#5I think that Retina resolution displays will dominate the field in much less time than ten years: Since every mobile device maker has to match Apple I'd bet that by next year every new phone and tablet will feature a higher resolution screen. maybe that won't be 256, but maybe it will be at least 150. Then you can bet that in at least two years you'll see the same thing happen on laptops — and desktops will have to f…
Was there any factory capable of producing 15" panels with 220+ LEDs per inch ten years ago?
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#6This guy's problem is that he thinks pixel-fitting is an appropriate technique at any resolution: it's not.
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#7The article raises the specter of a "1x-tax", along the lines of the "IE7 tax". The difference, of course, is that it's easy and free for people to upgrade their browsers, whereas upgrading the screen is not. As inconvenient as it is for the designers, it would be incredibly bad PR to say, in essence, "Only rich computer users should be using our site".
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#8It's great that these 2x res displays are becoming more accessible, but the state of web standards is dangerously behind in terms of support for them. Right now, the only way to serve images optimally for the various screens is to have the server attempt to assess the display resolution for the client using either JavaScript or CSS media queries, and then either send different HTML to different clients, with different content linked in img tags, or have exception handling for the CSS images.
This is completely broken, as a client that wishes to access various assets might be denied them by the server, which thinks it knows best what's good for the client. This system is also bound to break as clients with unexpected capabilities emerge. Instead, the server should be dumb, making all the assets available, and the client should be making the decision of which assets to request.
Apple is the obvious source of expected progress on this front, since they control the retina hardware, OS and browser rendering engine. Others are able to influence this as well. Until someone fixes this broken mess we have now, however, retina users will not be getting widespread support. We can't expect big website operators to put up with the current horrible hacks people are using to support retina displays.
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#9I'm looking forward to the day when vector defined graphics are the norm and raster graphics are only used for things like pictures and games. There's really not much reason for UI and text to be defined by raster based graphics aside from the ease of creation, in my opinion. Using scalable graphics for layout removes the problems of resolution and DPI.
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#10"but it won’t be long before Retina Cinema Displays replace their outdated siblings"
I was honestly surprised with each retina release by Apple starting with the IPhone4. After the initial “aww” of it had passed, it was easier to wrap your head around its production due to its relatively small screen. Now we have 15” macbook pro’s with retina. Apple released a professional production machine for its retina ecosystem to thrive to aid its consumer mobile devices experience. This is exciting for us power users and geeks for sure.
A retina thunderbolt display(twenty seven inch), seems like quite a technological hurdle,. How much will you pay? $2000 for the screen? They could release such a product, again for professionals, to service professionals creating the content for their other devices to consume. You will pay for it though.
Does the average kitchen need retina imacs and will the market speak?