| ▲ | tylerrobinson 6 days ago | |
> “…featuring the Intel Core Duo processor and a gorgeous new 13-inch glossy widescreen display…” > “…the MacBook provides incredibly crisp images with richer colors, deeper blacks and significantly greater contrast…” This is positioning for glossy being superior. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2006/05/16Apple-Unveils-New-M... | ||
| ▲ | lapcat 6 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
It's indisputable that glossy displays have advantages over matte displays. It's also indisputable that matte displays have advantages over glossy displays, most importantly, fewer reflections of ambient light. The choice is a tradeoff. A sentence in a PR that highlights an indisputable advantage of a glossy display does not position glossy as being superior overall but merely superior in the respects mentioned, which is not controversial. Moreover, Apple continued to offer a matte display in the MacBook Pro for years after that PR, so why would they sell an "inferior" option? | ||
| ▲ | galagawinkle489 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
In one quote they used glossy to describe it. How does that mean they said that glossiness made it better? The other quote is just a list of ways in which the screen is better. It is YOU that is conflating these and saying that this list of improvements is down to glossiness, not Apple. | ||