> On Mar 30, 12:32 pm, Karsten Silz <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for acknowledging that solving the mystery of "When you hold > a tablet device with both hands, why does the tablet need thick > bezels?" is indeed a challenge worth the Nobel Prize. Remember: Hating > Apple is ok. Hating Apple and not thinking because of it is not ok.
Mr-I-need-an-A5-for-my-thumbs, initial aesthetic impressions aside, look at it objectively: Height: 244 mm Width: 190 mm Area: 46360 mm^2 or about 75% of an A4 A 4:3 aspect screen of 1024*768 @132dpi will amount to about: Height: 197 mm Width: 148 mm Area: 29156 mm^2 or slightly smaller than an A5. That means the screen takes up a mere 63%, with the bezel then taking 37%. I don't see why the iPad should be treated differently than say digital photo frames or other tablets. For years we've had to live with clunky bezels [http://bit.ly/BeZeL]. Are you telling me you don't think the bezel looks clunky by Apple's normal aesthetic standards? > If I was a carrier, I'd > hate that idea because iPad users will downloads hundreds of megabytes > over my cellular network, and I don't make a single cent on this, > turning me into a dumb pipe. Device and carrier should be completely separate entities - unfortunately in the US especially, these are heavily intertwined. So much in fact, that carriers assume things about a phone of a distinct brand on their network. In Canada, Rogers cut my data subscription and kept spamming me with SMS because there were a software glitch in their build of Android when calling 911. Never-mind that for ½ year I had already been running a community build of Android 1.6 + 2.0. When you buy a new computer and plan to hook it to the Interwebs, do you also sign a contract with the Internet carrier that says you may only use this computer and these applications with it? Where would we be today, if things were like that? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
