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by clhodapp 1101 days ago
4k was the marketers cashing in a puffery token they'd been carrying for quite a long time by accurately measuring the short side of displays.

They moved to measuring the long side AND exaggerating by rounding up in the same generation, stealing the name of a slightly-better existing standard in the process.

You're right that 8k makes sense so long as you accept 4k, though.