Comment by f33d5173
2 days ago
Because apple controls all their hardware and can assume that everyone has a particulr set of features and not care about those without. The rest of the industry doesn't have that luxury.
2 days ago
Because apple controls all their hardware and can assume that everyone has a particulr set of features and not care about those without. The rest of the industry doesn't have that luxury.
Apple could easily have ensured screens across their whole ecosystem had a specific subpixel alignment - yet they still nixed the feature.
The artifacts created by subpixel AA are dumb and unnecessary when the pixel density is high enough for grayscale to look good. Plus, with display scaling, subpixel AA creates artifacts. (Not like display scaling itself doesn't also create artifacts - I cannot tolerate the scaling artifacts on iPad, for example)
Apple cannot guarantee the pixel density will actually be high enough. They make computers and tablets that can attach to any external monitor.
macOS looks *awful* on anything that isn't precisely 218ppi. Other than Apple's overpriced profit-machine displays, there are two displays that reach this: LG's Ultrafine 5K, and Dell's 6K (with its ugly, extraneous webcam attached to the top). Other 6K monitors were shown at CES this year but so far, I haven't actually found any for sale. EDIT: Correction, LG apparently doesn't sell the 5K Ultrafine anymore, at least on their website.
That means, the odds are incredibly high that unless you buy the LG, or drop a wad on an overpriced Studio Display or the even worse valued Pro Display, your experience with macOS on an external monitor will be awful.
That's even before we get into the terrible control we have in the OS over connection settings. I shouldn't have to buy BetterDisplay to pick a refresh rate I know my display is capable of on the port it's plugged into.