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iPhone X Has the 'Most Innovative and High Performance' Smartphone Display Ever Tested (macrumors.com)
The display in the iPhone X is produced by Samsung and improved by Apple, says screen technology analysis firm DisplayMate. The company has released a display shoot-out for the iPhone X, praising Apple's technology in areas like the higher resolution OLED screen, automatic color management, viewing angle performance, and more. Mac Rumors reports: According to DisplayMate, the iPhone X has the "most innovative and high performance" smartphone display it has ever tested. DisplayMate also congratulated Samsung Display for "developing and manufacturing the outstanding OLED display hardware in the iPhone X." iPhone X matched or set new smartphone display records in the following categories: highest absolute color accuracy, highest full screen brightness for OLED smartphones, highest full screen contrast rating in ambient light, and highest contrast ratio. It also had the lowest screen reflectance and smallest brightness variation with a viewing angle. The iPhone X's 5.8-inch OLED display includes a taller height to width aspect ratio of 19.5:9, 22 percent larger than the 16:9 aspect ratio on previous iPhone models (and most other smartphones). Because of this DisplayMate noted that the iPhone X also has a new 2.5K higher resolution with 2436x1125 pixels and 458 pixels per inch. The iPhone X's display resolution provides "significantly higher image sharpness" than can be analyzed by a person with normal 20/20 vision at a 12-inch viewing distance. DisplayMate said this means that it's now "absolutely pointless" to increase the display resolution and pixels per inch of the iPhone any further, since there would be "no visual benefit" for users.
had a better display...... it only lacked the NSA back doors.
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Seems like Slashdot defeats Adblock quite easily.
Yeah. So Apple has the greatest display tech..... that their biggest competitor (Samsung) makes. But wait... Apple 'improves' that technology.
Writing's on the wall. Apple's done. The only thing keeping them alive is lock-in technologies and their walled garden, and that'll die out eventually as Samsung surpasses them in every technology avenue. Because Samsung actually makes their own products, and Apple GIVES AWAY every last bit of their research because they can't make their own.
Outsourcing manufacturing fails every, single, time. You give away your technology, teach others to make it, and then get yourself toasted as they figure out how to make it better, cheaper, faster, or just copy it so they don't have to pay for an R&D budget.
The display is what it is. The doohickey driving that display, now that's a different story. Typically you will get a doohickey that can drive several displays, along with some sample code of how to do stuff. The sample code is pretty basic, mostly showing off "this is our new feature, please buy lots of these please please please".
Of course Apple made the display look better. Not because of the display itself, but because of the doohickey that drives the display. The doohickey that was shipped with barely functional, um, functions.
Not saying the display can't be a differentiator, just saying the video driver plays a much more important part. After all, it's the video driver that enables/enhances the special features of the display.
Ars Technica stories of any note invariably end up here, but instead of running iPhone X is the "most breakable iPhone", they ran with this slashvertisement instead.
BeauHD could have at least added the display is the most "innovative in fragility" as a secondary story.
Tentatively posting, critical AC posts have been removed lately, their post number 404'd.
'DisplayMate said this means that it's now "absolutely pointless" to increase the display resolution and pixels per inch of the iPhone any further, since there would be "no visual benefit" for users.'
But they'll do it anyway, because how else are they going to sell users on the iPhone XI?
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
fanboiz idiot - "the video driver plays a much more important part"... It's important, not necessarily much more tard. Go hook that much more important video driver to your lcd of the 90s that could change state about once per second in the cold.
That is 1/50th of my annual salary working in IT In Silicon Valley!
fanboiz idiot - "the video driver plays a much more important part"... It's important, not necessarily much more tard. Go hook that much more important video driver to your lcd of the 90s that could change state about once per second in the cold.
Up until about 8 years ago my job was to get video drivers and displays working well together with various baseband chips. Did that for 4 years for a major phone maker. I kinda think I know what I'm talking about.
Congratulations Apple, for buying and re-selling Samsung hardware.
But it's only 5.8 inches.
Too much beer too early (damned Daylight Saving Time). Did you really tell me to connect a modern video controller to a 30 year old LCD? We won't mention LCDs weren't a thing in the 90s. Howzabout you connect your RS232 enabled media player to iTunes? Or that 3.5 inch parallel port backup tape deck you have laying around to your 8 GB laptop for backups?
Fucking dumass
Just remembered, the video driver was embedded in the display. The baseband had it's own video driver. The fun part was eking out the best parts of all three. My job was to just ensure all 3 played together, not to make the display great.
Yeah, a professional in the field uses the phrase 'doohickey' all the time I guess.
Because Samsung actually makes their own products, and Apple GIVES AWAY every last bit of their research because they can't make their own.
I'm sorry but I did miss the Great Apple Giveaway that they had at Apple HQ last week where every one of their competitors go to take all the research they could carry. Basically none part of what you said is true because the secretive Apple I know isn't above suing people to prevent their research from getting out. I seem to recall them firing an engineer recently because daughter posted a video taken at Apple HQ of an iPhone X prototype. That's the secretive Apple I know.
Also, are you sure Samsung makes all of their own products? You mean for years they didn't say buy processors from Qualcomm, displays from LG, memory from Toshiba, etc.
Outsourcing manufacturing fails every, single, time. You give away your technology, teach others to make it, and then get yourself toasted as they figure out how to make it better, cheaper, faster, or just copy it so they don't have to pay for an R&D budget
Yes because Samsung has never outsourced a single product or component to another country or company, ever. Oh wait, they have. You can open any Samsung product and see this.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Oh thank goodness. Now my Facebook posts and SMS messages will be crisper and sharper than ever. Because on my $20 Android phone they were totally readable but didn't have that Apple zing!
Slashdot hit rock bottom long ago. Now it has bought industrial drilling equipment and is digging.
Someone should let DisplayMate know that VR is a thing.
Yes we do. It can add a little levity and help show that we aren't always pretentious pricks who need to talk down to others with our big words. If you had enough experience as a humble professional, you would know this.
They werenâ(TM)t as ubiquitous as they are now, but they certainly were a âoethingâ or âoedoohickey.â
Just give it time
I can talk out my ass online too. If you're not going to provide proof to back up your claims of expertise, or let your arguments stand on their own merits, then you can cram it all right up your ass.
"Apple can't compete against a broad and open market."
Wait... isn't Apple functioning in the world economy? Did I miss something about Apple being uniquely out of the free market economy now? ;-P
It would an amazing achievement to make such massive profits given that they are isolated in their own narrow and closed economic system.
Your job was to make video hardware and radio hardware work together? Did you also work on the turboencabulator tuning?
Nobody will see it, but they'll know it's better.
When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.
The baseband had it's own video driver.
The modem had its own video driver. Seems legit.
... at that price.
Now if only I could think of a reason why I would need that.
Frankly, for most stuff, a black-and-white e-paper display would suffice. (Calling, sending Signal IM messages, maybe checking mails, reading some news, using it as a WIFI remote control, listening to music.)
And for videos, a phone is always gonna be shit, simply due to the size the display being limited by the size of my pocket.
Up until about 8 years ago my job was to get video drivers and displays working well together
Great, that's about the same time every smartphone manufacturer except for Apple moved on from LCD to OLED. Isn't that an amazing coincidence.
lucm, indeed.
The only people making it an Apple vs. Samsung competition are the Apple advocates. For everybody else, the smartphone business is a whole bunch of suppliers, and weird Apple off in their own headgame.
Um, you mean besides the poster above who is clearly pro-Samsung and anti-Apple? I wouldn't call him an Apple advocate. It would seem that contrary to OP's assertion that would give Apple an advantage: They can get whatever component they want from a competitor but no competitor buys components from them as they never sell them.
Apple can't compete against a broad and open market. They always narrow the comparison to themselves and the most expensive choice 'The Rest of Us' could choose.
I would say the iPhone is strong contrary to your point. You want a smartphone not made by Apple; you have plenty of choice: Apple still makes a lot of money and is a powerful player in the smartphone market.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
The question is why you would post as an AC? But to counter to your point that's like saying Porsche can't compete against a broad and open market. They only makes sports cars and make themselves the most expensive choice. They should make more mini-vans for soccer moms. And to also counter your point it's not factually true. Can you get an iPhone cheaper than a Samsung or LG? Have you heard of the SE, 6, 6 Plus, 7, 7 Plus? I mean it's not like Apple doesn't have 8 models going from $350 to $999.
They constantly position themselves in a magical made-up segment, like that guy who shoots the wall of a barn then goes and draw the target around his bullet holes.
A made-up segment? They target the high end for computers and the phones cover a broad spectrum. So what? Why are you mad that Apple goes after a very specific market?
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
The context is irrelevant. That sentence is just the opinion of an anti-Apple bitch. Of course Apple doesn't go out and advertise their phones as being better than a Moto G5 Plus. What the fuck would be the point? Does Jaguar advertise their cars as better than Yugos? Does Gordon Ramsey claim to be a better chef than a lunch-lady in a high-school cafeteria?
This is marketing basics, dipshit. You don't aim for the bottom of the fucking barrel, you aim for the top. You don't advertise your product as better than some no-name Chinese knock-off, you advertise it as better than the top competitor in your space.
You're the pathetic one here. You just can't stand that Apple makes tens of billions of dollars because they sell stuff that people actually want to buy and are willing to pay more for it. So go ahead and keep bashing Apple, the one making all the money, and have fun with your exploding batteries, manufacturer-bloated operating system, and an app store loaded with malware. Good luck with that.
You are really that gutless and stupid to have this posted?
You should just stop. You're only making yourself look like a bigger idiot. Shut up, save face, and move the fuck along.
TFTs were a thing, just not common. See, e.g, the Indy Presenter
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I only know this because I remember seeing one and thinking something like "woah future alien tech".
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19.5:9 ? Surely you meant 39:18.
I hope someday they'll get their research guys on how to add a headphone jack to the suckers... Seems like it should be simple enough...
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samsung developed it, and makes it, its like saying I personally own the US army ... cause I pay someone else to do it for me
Remember all that fuss about Samsung displays being way brighter than the iPhone X display?
Well it turns out that just like battery life figures, Apple gives out accurate details while other people and manufacturers use the upper end of a range of numbers and lead you to assume it's an average.
From the actual report:
The Samsung Galaxy Note8 can produce up to 1,240 nits, but only for small portions of the screen area (Low Average Picture Levels) - for Full Screen Brightness the Note8 can produce up to 423 nits with Manual Brightness and 560 nits with Automatic Brightness only in High Ambient Light.
Meanwhile Apple claims the iPhone X as 634 nits, but (again from the article):
For small portions of the screen area the iPhone X can produce up to 809 nits (Low Average Picture Levels). On its Home Screen the iPhone X produces an impressively bright 726 nits.
How can this be? It's because Samsung may be making the screen but Apple drove the design Samsung is manufacturing, from the pixel layout to the chips driving the display.
Or maybe there are some other reasons Samsung is not shipping displays as good as the X has on Samsung's on hardware?
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Fucking dumass, the lesser known brother of Alexander Dumass
I personally don't want my phone to have a headphone jack. It's a waste of space and i wouldn't buy a phone design that clings to such dead technology
The only thing keeping them alive is lock-in technologies and their walled garden, and that'll die out eventually as Samsung surpasses them in every technology avenue.
If Samsung is so great, why does it abandon it's smartphone and tablet users in two years or less since the device announcement date? The price premium of Apple devices is well worth it because your device will be getting timely security updates and OS upgrades for up to five years. The old iPad Mini 2 and iPhone 5S which were available since the late 2013 are still running the latest iOS 11. On the other hand, where are the 2013 Samsung phones and tablets? Most of them are already in the trash can.
Maybe it's my OCD, but 2436x1125 pixels? What kind of weird resolution and aspect ratio is that?
I personally don't want my phone to have a headphone jack. It's a waste of space and i wouldn't buy a phone design that clings to such dead technology
The word "dead"... it doesn't seem to mean what you think it means.
"The iPhone X's 5.8-inch OLED display includes a taller height to width aspect ratio of 19.5:9, 22 percent larger than the 16:9 aspect ratio on previous iPhone models (and most other smartphones)"
But not most other flagship smartphones. Samsung, LG, Google, and other, are now all shipping 20:9 ratio screens (personally I wish they would have just stuck to 16:9...). The Samsung S8+ has a 6.2 screen, higher resolution (2960x1440), Super AMOLED, 529ppi screen, and doesn't have a chuck cut out of the top.
Even the S8, which has a 5.8" screen the same as the iPhone X, has the same higher resolution (at 570ppi), a full 20:9, and no missing chuck at the top.
If I were an iPhone person, I wouldn't be buying the iPhone X because of that stupid chuck they cut out. (And the lack of a headphones port. I didn't buy the Google Pixel XL explicitly because there's no headphone socket.)
... 18:9 ratio
(my bad)
A made-up segment? They target the high end for computers and the phones cover a broad spectrum. So what? Why are you mad that Apple goes after a very specific market?
Quite. It's not as though the specific market is the very rich. People who want an iPhone range from those on the poverty line up to the rich and famous. It's all about the 'draw' of the product to the consumer. >p>I recall seeing a news article about a nurse in the UK who wanted a Dodge Viper for £70k - around 3 years wages. She stopped going out, buying superfluous items and eventually she got the Viper. It didn't make sense to me but the product resonated with her.
The iPhone is small change in comparison and much more useful. Apple has managed to convince consumers that there is extra value to their products for 10 years and the competition between Apple and other manufacturers benefits us all right?
Yeah. So Apple has the greatest display tech..... that their biggest competitor (Samsung) makes
You seem to be under the misapprehension that Samsung is a company. Samsung is a collection of largely independent companies that hate each other only slightly less than they hate all non-Korean companies. It's very misleading to think that Samsung displays, Samsung CPUs, and Samsung phones are made by the same company - Samsung phones often include non-Samsung parts even when there is a Samsung equivalent.
Outsourcing manufacturing fails every, single, time. You give away your technology, teach others to make it, and then get yourself toasted as they figure out how to make it better, cheaper, faster, or just copy it so they don't have to pay for an R&D budget.
There are basically no companies that build products without using any third-party suppliers. Apple makes their own CPUs, GPUs, and OS. They buy RAM and displays from third parties and buy flash from factories that they own but which are operated by third parties. In contrast, Samsung fabs their own SoCs, but typically using CPU and GPU IP that they've licensed from third parties (their flagship Exynos line contains ARM-designed GPUs, and ARM-designed CPUs, though the most recent iterations have also included a Samsung-designed CPU core). Their OS is largely under the control of Google. I'm not really sure what your point is.
All companies do something like this, because manufacturing and R&D both have huge economies of scale. The more units you can amortise the costs across, the better, and if one supplier is selling to a dozen integrators then it's likely to be better and cheaper than anything designed in house. This was why AMD spun off Global Foundries, for example: they were producing around 20% of the volume of chips that Intel produced, and so couldn't compete building fabs with the latest technology, but when GF started fabbing chips for other vendors this volume went up and they were more able to compete (plus AMD had the option of using other companies' fabs if GF stumbled over a particular process node).
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...and low performance but sorely missed HEADPHONE JACK!
Answer the two questions people really care about: How hard is it to root the thing and how easy to circumvent the current latest security gimmick?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Apple, Samsung and Google are making competing products for the same user base where they are trying to make the ultimate premium phone
Google isn't making a product directly competing for the same user base.
Google's userbase are the advertisers, and the product they sell are the eyeballs of the viewer.
They don't care if you saw the ads while looking at a Google Pixel, a Samsung Galaxy, any other random Android-running smartphone, or even Apple iPhone, for that matters. As long as they managed to expose you to the ad, they earn money.
Their other biggest revenue stream is their Play Store.
Given the huge prevalence of Android-running devices, or even Android-compatible hardware (like Chromebooks or Jolla's Sailfish OS) Google again doesn't specifically need to build their own devices.
Google making device isn't a revenue stream generator for them.
It's only a way to show case bleeding edge technology that will end-up being eventually available in most other android-running device by other manufacturer.
It's basically just a marketing stuff, to make sure that people will still go on-line and still run android apps.
But they don't make the biggest chunk of their fortune by selling devices themselves, and thus are absolutely NOT in direct competition with Apple nor Samsung.
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That to me basically says "the display that'll suck my battery dry the fastest".
Actually, that depends.
classic IPS TFT LCD display contantly needs power (to keep the light on). Thus even a whole black screen consume power (to make light that will be blocked near completely by every signle liquid cristal). Only very recent high-range desktop and TV display have started locally varying the light emitted by LED backlights to adapt to local display (they'll dim the backlight in some region of the display instead of filtering the light through the LCD).
OLED based display only need power to make the (proteins inside the) pixels shine. A dark pixel doesn't consume power, a whole black screen consume nearly no power at even if the phone is on (that's how OLED phone can manage not to kill battery while displaying time and/or status while suspended : only the non-black pixels consume power).
So switching from LCD to OLED (and turning of display-while-suspended) actually can increase your battery life.
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Personally I agree, I like the 16:9 ratio aesthetically, it is close to the ~ 16:10 golden ratio so a lot of artists must agree also.
Should be: "Samsung's display that Apple buys for the iPhone X is the most innovative and highest performance display ever tested"
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
Well imagine that. Amazing.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
They obviously didn't test it against a modern 4k phone display like https://www.sonymobile.com/ca-...
458ppi? Try 806. What a laugh.
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I think you are misinterpreting what Puls4r is saying (not that I agree with him).
There are a few ways to make products. One is to use off-the-shelf components and piece them together to make your own product. This completely off-the-shelf model tends to be quick and produce lower cost products since there is very little R&D overhead incurred. But it tends toward 'me too' products with little / no innovation in hardware.
The other is to start from there then use your own R&D to develop new unique components which then can differentiate your product from others. You develop new and exciting things, manufacture them, and pair them with off-the-shelf components to get a truly unique product that no competitor can match.
What Puls4r is alluding to is that Apple's R&D develops some great components, then gives those components to others to manufacture (like Samsung and TSMC making Apple's signature ARM processors, or Samsung making Apple's 'improved' display. What Puls4r is contending is that Apple is giving their potential competitors an advantage by giving them the know-how (and paying them to develop the tooling and process needed) to make better products without them incurring the R&D cost, information and technique they can then employ on their own competing products (even if not exactly copy, but take the learning about what improvements are possible, etc...).
While what you are referring to is Samsung using off-the-shelf components, not the same as developing your own and using other companies to manufacture.
Also, re: Samsung using LG for displays: That is for their LCD TV displays, not their smartphone displays on their mid and high range phones which are AMOLED displays manufactured by Samsung Displays.
Though granted I don't typically use doohickey, I am a fan of thingamajig, whatchamadoodle and thingy jingy. You see, I'm an engineer, not a linguist, and words are hard.
"DisplayMate said this means that it's now "absolutely pointless" to increase the display resolution and pixels per inch of the iPhone any further, since there would be "no visual benefit" for users."
Clearly they haven't used Google Cardboard.
Insta-bought. I'm convinced.
Except that phones are now used for VR where you are looking at screen from 2-3 inches away through magnifying glasses! Would love to get to point where you cannot see pixels with this setup.
Not that I expect much from macrumors.com besides self-stroking masturbation, but it's funny to see them flex *Apple* in the headline instead of, you know, *Samsung*, who developed the damn screen. Instead, those who should get the credit for the innovation are given second billing...That's just limp.
Rubbish! I read an article about the new IPhone X and the images of the display didn't look any better than that of the phone I was reading the article on. In fact, the resolution and contrast looked worse...
Agreed, assuming the display is the best display of them all... one display to rule them all and in the darkness bind the customers and all that...
Then BY DEFINITION, it must be Samsung who has the best display, since they are the ones making that god damn display... you can not "improve" a display made by others... please remove Apple tintet glasses!!! Jeez!
Apple has no real R&D, they have no reason to keep secrets... ANY TECH they use, have ALREADY been COMMON on ALL ANDROID phones for the LAST 4 YEARS when an iPhone FINALLY gets to try SOME of the TECH!
Apple can in no way be described as cutting edge, unless they live in an alternate timeline that is displayed by 5 years compared to their competition
and yes, they have competition, wheather or not their marketing department wants to acknowledge that fact or not
even Samsung, that has become a SAD SAD Apple clone, still does iPhones better than Apple
Razor phone 120hz screen is smoother, and it's not 4k like other phones, so by 'best' you mean nice looking.
that screen is made by samsung electronics for apple , apple is the Nike of IT , doesnt do an OS ( darwin is just a skin on top of freeBSD) , doesnt do a processor (dumped its own powerPC chip in favor of intel) , screen memory of idevices are samsung , processor was bought from ARM under license , apple really is just an image , pure markeeting no manufactoring
fanboiz idiot - "the video driver plays a much more important part"... It's important, not necessarily much more tard. Go hook that much more important video driver to your lcd of the 90s that could change state about once per second in the cold.
Up until about 8 years ago my job was to get video drivers and displays working well together with various baseband chips
Then they found out you are a blow-hard know-nothing, and you were fired.
. Apple has managed to convince consumers that there is extra value to their products for 10 years and the competition between Apple and other manufacturers benefits us all right?
No. Apple like any other brand needs to convince everyone that their product is worth it. As for extra value, do you mean besides the years of software updates Apple iPhones seem to have which are longer than their Android counterparts? You mean besides a software library that doesn't have a reputation for malware?
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There are a few ways to make products. One is to use off-the-shelf components and piece them together to make your own product. This completely off-the-shelf model tends to be quick and produce lower cost products since there is very little R&D overhead incurred. But it tends toward 'me too' products with little / no innovation in hardware.
Yes but only applies to hardware where there is anything to innovate. That doesn't apply to commodity hardware. For example, what R&D improvements could Apple gain by making their own RAM? Not much. Open multiple phones of the same model and you might get RAM from multiple suppliers.
What Puls4r is alluding to is that Apple's R&D develops some great components, then gives those components to others to manufacture (like Samsung and TSMC making Apple's signature ARM processors, or Samsung making Apple's 'improved' display. What Puls4r is contending is that Apple is giving their potential competitors an advantage by giving them the know-how (and paying them to develop the tooling and process needed) to make better products without them incurring the R&D cost, information and technique they can then employ on their own competing products (even if not exactly copy, but take the learning about what improvements are possible, etc...).
The flaw in that logic is that only Apple "gives away R&D" because Apple is the only one does this. Every single smartphone manufacturer outsources some part. Some component makers also do this. For example, Qualcomm doesn't manufacture their own processors as they have no fabs; they sell their designs. Also the other flaw is the assumption that no one in the industry does any sort of research on their competitor's product. If Apple manufactured their own ARM processors, you'd bet Samsung and Qualcomm would dissect it as soon as it came on the market. How is that different than today? There's no difference. Qualcomm and Samsung probably dissect every single Apple Ax processors when they come on the market. For Samsung they probably dissect the TSMC variants to gain advantages over TSMC. And I bet you Samsung dissects Qualcomm processors as well.
If anything Apple has an advantage because while they can buy components from their competitors, no competitor can buy their components. For example Apple will never sell their ARM processors to competition directly. You want an Apple Ax processor you have to buy the whole phone. Samsung still sells their ARM processors to their competitors although it may not be their top end ones.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
LCDs were a thing in the late 1980s, what on Earth are you talking about? You didn't generally buy them separately but there were quite a few computers sold with LCD screens. There were color "LCDs" by the mid-1990s (most, admittedly, pretty awful, though the technology improved rapidly), and by the late 1990s, standalone VGA-fed LCD monitors were a thing.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Open a Samsung phone and you'll see bits made by other manufacturers.
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doesnt do an OS ( darwin is just a skin on top of freeBSD)
That's not factually true. Darwin is the open source variant of macOS which is derived from NextSTEP which is a long way derived from BSD. That's like saying humans are just skins on top of orangutans.
doesnt do a processor (dumped its own powerPC chip in favor of intel)
Yes because Dell, HP, Lenovo (formerly IBM), etc. all made their own processors for their x86 computers in the last decade . . . wait none of them did.
processor was bought from ARM under license
Not factually true either. Buying an architecture license is from ARM is not buying a processor from ARM. Ask Qualcomm.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Apple is competing in a broad and open market that is the point. They just choose how to do it to generate maximum profit. That is simply smart business.
You need to recognize sarcasm is all. Or in my comment above... simple snakiness.
So then, what you're saying is black pixels don't matter?
Or that white pixels are keeping the most power, depending on which flamewar you want to start.
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Sure they are. By being slower than a slideshow. And battery life was killed on all devices (except iphone 8) by iOS11.
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