Comment by usr1106

Sure I all know this.

My point is Apple has started the nonsense. An insignificant improvement for the average user that has lead to a massive increase of resource consumption. The competition has followed suit because it costs so little, it only increases ecological footprint, but we don't need to pay money for that.

I had a Thinkpad X1C. I was happy about it, battery life when working under Linux was 5-7 hours. It was stolen and I took more or less the same model. Except the old display and integrated GPU where no longer available, resolutions had gone up in the meantime, probably RAM had doubled. The difference in energy consumption was massive, battery life 3-5 hours. I am convinced HDPI support has not made me a better coder, maybe a more grumpy one.

HDPI could be a niche product for medical, scientific and whatnot applications or wherever they really benefit from it. But as long Apple can be the leader in greed ruining the planet for marginal "benefits" that won't happen.

> A major complaint of the iPhone 6-7-8 era of phones was that they “aren’t even 1080p.”

A spec driven complaint. There was nothing seripously wrong with their usability. At least not caused by the resolution.