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For Normals, Jobs' "Retina Display" Claim May Be Fair After All

Posted by timothy on from the sharp-dealing dept.

The Bad Astronomer writes "AT WWDC, Steve Jobs claimed that the iPhone 4's display has about the same resolution as the human eye — held at one foot away, the iPhone 4's pixels are too small to see. After reading an earlier Slashdot post about an expert disputing Jobs' claim, I decided to run the numbers myself. I found that Jobs is correct for people with normal vision, and the expert was using numbers for theoretically perfect vision. So to most people, the iPhone 4 display will look unpixellated."

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  1. it's Vulva you biologically ignorant clod by Kupfernigk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The bits you are referring to are the vulva. Before trying to get a girl to show you hers, you might at least learn to get the terminology right. I don't normally post on these topics, but this particular misuse annoys me as much as the people that think cars have breaks rather than brakes.

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    1. Re:it's Vulva you biologically ignorant clod by Maxo-Texas · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I've had much better luck with "sacred garden" (and vulgar words) than with "vulva".

      Tho my sample size is too small to be sure. I must increase the sample size.

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  2. Re:Wrong or right by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    640K is enough for everybody.

  3. Re:So It's catching my droid then? by Mark19960 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why is parent modded 0, troll?
    Because the Apple fanboys are upset that people with Droids can't see pixels at 1 foot either?
    Truth hurts, doesn't it?

  4. Re:We can't tell, anyway by Guppy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Most Slashdotters will never be anywhere close to one foot from a vagina anyway

    Oh, I'm pretty sure most Slashdotters have been closer than that. First a short distance in one direction, then the opposite.

  5. Re:Rubbish by DJRumpy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Probably one of the more insightful and 'sane' comments I've seen on Apple in a very long while. Unfortunately, the will mod you down as 'troll' or 'flamebait' when you actually make very good arguments. The anti-Apple crowd in here has turned into THE definition of a fanboi (read: irrational), only they don't realize or refuse to see how irrational some of the arguments used have become.

  6. Re:So It's catching my droid then? by konohitowa · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The price you have to pay if you don't masturbate with rest of the apple fanbois on /. - I have been serial-down-modded so many times...

    You're just circling the wagons so no one will suspect that you've actually been masturbating with the rest of the apple fanbois. You guys pony up for some iLotion?

  7. Re:So It's catching my droid then? by gyrogeerloose · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why is parent modded 0, troll? Because the Apple fanboys are upset that people with Droids can't see pixels at 1 foot either? Truth hurts, doesn't it?

    Funny, my interpretation was that the undeserved troll mod came from an Apple Hater who didn't like the implication that Jobs might have been right.

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