I find the use of the buzz word retina by Myriam Joire incredibly silly on the most recent podcast

[G+_Alfredo Suarez]

I find the use of the buzz word retina by Myriam Joire  incredibly silly on the most recent podcast.

The 'retina' buzz word is applied to the PPI measurements varying from 207 - 401.

 

There is already a standard resolution description in PPI which everyone can understand and is an unit of measurement. Not magic Apple buzzwords.

[G+_Mark Stronge]

Absolutely agree.

[G+_Tomas Skäre]

But PPI makes different sense depending on the type of device. A TV doesn't need as high PPI since you watch it from a longer distance. The retina word also takes that into account and is more the perception of the display rather than pure numbers.

[G+_Pradyumn Vij]

Tomas Skäre that argument is equivalent to preferring subjective measurements of discrete things rather than objective (hint discrete things are made for counting).

A car doesn't need as high a speed since it doesn't fly therefore their speeds should be measured in a subjective manner of going "fast".

What is a retina world?  It is an abstract  advertising word.  It has nothing to do with the real world meaning of retina.

 

The only reason that you would not want to note the real numbered measurements is to mislead the person you are talking to.

 

If you got pulled over by a cop and you asked what speed they measured and they said "fast in a 60 zone", would you want to have more granularity or happily pay the $500 fine?

[G+_Tomas Skäre]

Just because a subjective method may work for one thing doesn't mean I have to want it for everything. So I see no point in comparing with other things.

 

You usually already get the numbers too, or can find them if you look a little. But in a normal conversation about a new device, I really don't care if it's 300 or 400 PPI. Both are good enough.

 

A normal 40" HD TV is about 56 PPI. If you compare that with a 400 PPI phone, it doesn't sound very good, but it still looks good when watching it.

 

I'm just saying that I don't mind that Myriam, or anyone else, is using a subjective word, that most people do understand the meaning of, in the normal conversation. If you really want the hard numbers, it's easy to google them.

[G+_Pradyumn Vij]

Tomas Skäre you're the only person that thus far thinks that a subject method works for a discrete measurement.

 

You don't get the numbers when you are being mislead, misinformed or the person doing the informing is not aware of the details.  If I'm listening to a podcast and someone is talking about pixel density yet is describing the measurements in a subjective manner I have no idea of what that means, what can I compare it to?

Even in your post you have no idea that retina displays include 207 ppi (not just 300 ppi as Jobs initially claimed which was BS).

 

Your example of a TV makes complete sense due to your PPI measurements, if you said they both had "high" or "retina" pixel density neither would enlighten me.

 

You may not mind it and you are speaking on the behalf of a large population that is mostly technically comfortable.  Most people do understand that "retina" is a way of injecting ambiguity in place of a measurement to hide the fact that their resolutions are relatively low when compared to other flagship phones.

 

There is no such thing as a "normal conversation" in this case we are listening to a podcast which is discussing resolutions and pixel density, starting with discrete numbers and moving to an ambiguous buzz word.  

 

I hadn't seen the Androidwear screen for more than a few seconds or up close so I was trying to work out the pixel density being discussed.  This was made impossible due to the ambiguity of description.