| ▲ | wklauss 7 days ago |
| At Apple Stores, laptops screens have to be opened exactly at 76 degrees. I wonder if they use this sensor and specific software for adjustment (I'm not implying this is the only reason it's there) |
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| ▲ | simonbw 6 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| It seems like it would be much quicker and easier to just have a piece of plastic or something cut at a 76 degree angle that they can place on the laptop and fold the screen up to. |
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| ▲ | SchemaLoad 6 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Could be that the demo OS reports some metric on how often the laptops are set to 76deg and how often customers move it. Probably a whole ton of usages of the sensor and if it's price comparable to the old close sensor they used to use it would be easy to justify. | |
| ▲ | wklauss 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I've heard employees use the measurements app in their iPhones sometimes to adjust in the mornings, but having a sensor in the laptop lid seems like a much easier way to do it and you don't need to carry anything with you. | |
| ▲ | wickedsight 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | It would not, since you don't want to carry a piece of plastic all day long to set the angle correctly. Most people just use their phones to check the angle though. |
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| ▲ | stevage 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| 76 degrees is just an aesthetic choice? |
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| ▲ | wklauss 6 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I'm assuming so. Apparently it's an angle that "invites" people to use the computers, but I don't think there's anything specific about 76 degrees that makes it better than, say, 73 or 82. As long as you can see the content from an average height, it should work. Most likely they just settle on that angle because it looked good to the store team that was staging the first store, measured it, turned out to be 76 and kept it the same across stores since then for consistency. | | |
| ▲ | scratchyone 6 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I believe the rumor is that 76 degrees is slightly uncomfortable enough to look at that it makes you want to adjust the screen, which in turn makes you more likely to try the device. | |
| ▲ | bnj 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yep this seems like it makes a lot of sense— and adding on, picking a measurement means that all of them can be the same (consistency, as you said)- having variation in the same row would look bad from a distance | | |
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| ▲ | isomorphic 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | https://www.forbes.com/sites/carminegallo/2012/06/14/why-the... |
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