[dmorgan]

>That is simply impossible for two reasons: 1) Retina display is a trademarked Apple phrase and no other company will ever have retina displays. 2) Retina is not a technology.

Useless pedantic "correction" of the day award.

If you want to be fully pedantic though, you're wrong on both counts:

1) Retina might be trademarked by Apple, but nothing stops another company to sign a deal with Apple to use the name for their displays. So, "impossible"? Hardly.

2) Retina is very much a technology. Or rather, what is the definition of technology? Something that requires specific construction that can be identified qualifies as a "technology". In this case, Retina is: a high dpi screen, where high is the level that is impossible or extremely difficult for a person with 20/20 vision to separate pixels when looking from the average viewing distance for that particular class of device. If it's also the name of a SPECIFIC implementation of such things by a PARTICULAR company doesn't matter much, people are not lawyers.

We use a brand name as a substitute for the technology it represents all the time in other fields too. Even PC was once "IBM PC".

[fuckernaut]

Actually, your post is more deserving of your little award. Congrats!

[dmorgan]

Thanks, but I did it ironically.