Apple busted for exaggerating the resolution iPhone screen

[Mave]

Steve Jobs has already been busted for exaggerating the resolution of a new iPhone screen the Apple CEO unveiled yesterday. It's only the latest in a series of misleading videos, pictures and claims designed to part you and your money.

Writing for the nonprofit think tank Digital Society, former ZDNet technical director George Ou used a series of pictures and renderings to convincingly establish that Jobs' team used images to fake a pixel density improvement twice as good as actually delivered; on a pixel-per-inch basis, Apple's images showed an improvement of three to five times, versus the two times improvement actually delivered by the iPhone's new retina display (now at 326 pixels per inch vs. 163 pixels per inch before). His post is here, but here's his last slide

Source: http://gawker.com/5558442/how-apple-tricks-you

 

[ThePro]

Apple sux.

 

[waffelz]

hehe

 

[GPow69]

Well, it's marketing... If you were in his position you would do the same thing.

 

[Aman1238]

Apple is really sucking at selling this phone... First I found there were basically NO features that were new, and now this.. lies..
If you look at their selling points and 'new features' listed... (Bold ones are worth putting on the selling points...)

FaceTime (Camera in front)
Resolution - Really? The resolution on my iPod/iPhone right now is fine. I can see the picture fine. I don't need it.
Multi-tasking - Uhm... iPhone OS 4.0 has this... no need to buy a NEW phone...
HD Video recording
Folders for Apps - Possible with Jailbreak or iPhone OS 4.0
iBooks - Uhm? OS 4.0
Home Screen - WHAT? Home Screen is NOT a selling point..
iMovie
Phone - OMFG IT HAS A PHONE WOW!
Mail - Available in ALL other Apple products.
Safari - Again... in ALL other Apple products.
iPod - OMFG IT CAN PLAY MUSIC!
Photos - Really? Do you seriously need to put that there to sell something?
Voice Control - In older iPhones too.
Messages - ....again
Maps - ...again
Keyboard - Wow! Nothing we've ever seen before!
Search - Gah... I dont wanna type now... I'll just put '...' if something is obvious
App store - ...
iTunes Store -...
Accessibility - ...

And If I click "More Features" It just lists the default apps on the home screen thingy...

Apple PLEASE put some new features before asking for hundreds of dollars ....

 

[[FF]TeddyBear]

Well, it's marketing... If you were in his position you would do the same thing.

Marketing? I call it false advertising.

 

[ev0lution]

While I don't agree with their false advertising, most of this post was retarded:

Resolution - Really? The resolution on my iPod/iPhone right now is fine. I can see the picture fine. I don't need it.

So they improved it. Is there something wrong with that?

Multi-tasking - Uhm... iPhone OS 4.0 has this... no need to buy a NEW phone...
Folders for Apps - Possible with Jailbreak or iPhone OS 4.0
iBooks - Uhm? OS 4.0

If you had bothered to actually read, most of it is promoting the iOS 4 update as well as the iPhone. You're right, these features are just functions of iOS 4 and not specifically the new iPhone, but both are equally important.
Regardless, multitasking performs much better on the new iPhone 4 hardware, you can't even use that feature on older devices.

Home Screen - WHAT? Home Screen is NOT a selling point

You missed the "wallpaper" part at the end. You can set the home screen wallpaper now through iOS. Oh wait, that's an iOS feature, sorry...

Phone - OMFG IT HAS A PHONE WOW!
Mail - Available in ALL other Apple products.
Safari - Again... in ALL other Apple products.
iPod - OMFG IT CAN PLAY MUSIC!
Photos - Really? Do you seriously need to put that there to sell something?
Voice Control - In older iPhones too.
Messages - ....again
Maps - ...again
Keyboard - Wow! Nothing we've ever seen before!
Search - Gah... I dont wanna type now... I'll just put '...' if something is obvious
App store - ...
iTunes Store -...
Accessibility - ...
Apple PLEASE put some new features before asking for hundreds of dollars ....

Seriously?
Of course they're advertising that again. They're advertising the iPhone, not just the iPhone 4. None of those features have been removed, so they're still listed. Why wouldn't they be?
Also, isn't 1500 new APIs enough? Of course, hardly anything can show this yet except iMovie, a new great app with iOS 4/iPhone 4. Basically this means that developers can create new apps using these APIs, so, although the iOS update itself may not seem great to you, the new possibilities are amazing.

 

[Mave]

I agree with some of your arguments, Aman.
But I would still love to have one :T

 

[Andre]

I don't agree with any since it was a description for iPhone not the new features that OS4 brings. And the features are better than in any other. But I'd still like an XPERIA X10.

 

[Panki]

But I'd still like an XPERIA X10.

Same.
My mate is so stupid, he told me that you can download a pirated android for free. I was just like - "Max, stfu and stop talking about things you don't understand."

 

[ThePro]

Wait what?

PIRATED ANDROID?! WTF IS THIS GUY SMOKING -.-

Everyone on their right mind knows that android is open source.

 

[CreonSiper]

While I don't agree with their false advertising, most of this post was retarded:

So to say, ev0lution....

What people WANT to hear is:

"The NEW features of the iPhone"

Not old shit we already know it has, God knows Apple wont remove anything so might as well guess all the features on the old iPhone are surely gonna be on the new one.

They just wanted to look good by having one large list, next time add a list of the new stuff, Apple.