[atemerev]

Every Macbook after around 2015 is HiDPI. Windows Surface laptops, too. Hardly "practically do not exist in the wild". I love Smalltalk, but I am not qualified to rewrite the entire Pharo rendering layer, unfortunately.

Also, statscounter doesn't account for high resolution displays at all, grouping them all as "other". And these are around 20%.

[badsectoracula]

These are still very few compared to every other desktop available out there. I said they are rare, not that they do not exist.

If statscounter isn't up to your liking, then check:

https://www.screenresolution.org/ (typical desktop HiDPI resolutions like 3840x2160 are at ~0.1%)

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw... (gamers tend to have higher specs in their computers and 4K is a big trend in places like /r/buildapc and /r/pcgaming yet 4K is at just 1.51%)

https://www.statista.com/statistics/487487/leading-desktop-s... (only for UK and a couple years old but the likelihood of the statistics going dramatically up is very low)

Look, if all you work with is Macbooks and similar computers, it is very likely that your view is biased (pretty much like the people who wonder why others are making a fuss about Electron applications when they can run several of them without issues). According to this (1 year old):

https://www.cultofmac.com/618730/q1-2019-pc-market-apple-mac...

...Apple only had around 7% of the global market share of computer sales between big brands and not only that is very low but also it doesn't include local brands that assemble the computers themselves nor custom built computers (even though i do not believe this is a big number, considering the size of the custom built market that exists, it still is a significant number). And it is about all Mac sales, including the lower end iMac (that have a regular DPI monitor) and monitorless desktops like Mac Mini that can be connected to a regular DPI monitor.

HiDPI on desktop might be a mainstream thing in 10 years or so, but right now every single statistic available shows otherwise. On mobile is a different story though (which is why i tried to avoid any statistics page that focuses on mobile).

[atemerev]

The first link counts 4k displays with 2x scaling as 1920x1080. It doesn’t seem to differentiate for hidpi monitors. People who use 4k displays without UI scaling are rare indeed. Perhaps macs are “rare” (though 7% is hardly rare). HiDPI desktops are still rare indeed. But HiDPI laptops are pretty common these days.

When I first saw a hidpi display (on iPhone 4), this was a game changer for me. Since then, I don’t understand how it is even possible to settle for something with visible pixels. iPhone 4 was releases 10 years ago.

[owl57]

I'm curious if it is even more misleading. Does it count 3840x2160 with 2x scaling as "other" or "1920x1080"?

[mgamache]

Don't forget the Dell XPS line (which is popular with dev types). I am working on a three year old XPS 15 with HiDPI