Description: Matt Conway's occasional musings, rants, and thoughts.
We all know that Apple coined the term “Retina Display” to describe their high density displays for iPhone. The screens for mobile devices at the time were hovering in the 120-150 range for most handsets, while the retina screen for the iPhone clocked in at an impressive 326 PPI (pixels per inch), it was heralded as a great breakthrough for visual fidelity and accuracy.
Jobs, ever the master of marketing, claimed that this was a screen grain so small that the human retina couldn’t resolve individual pixels, and thus the name. From there, erupted a great debate about what “retina” actually meant, some saying it was the End of Pixel Density Innovation Forever For All Practical Purposes, and others claiming it was just a meaningless marketing fluffymumbleword.
( Fluffymumbleword™ is a meaningless marketing term trademarked by SimpleContraption).