On Nov 4, 2011, at 1:52 AM, LuKreme wrote:

> 
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> On Nov 3, 2011, at 21:44, Ashley Aitken <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> 
>> Here's a bit from Apple's iPhone Web pages on the Retina Displays: 
>> 
>> <Screen Shot 2011-11-03 at 11.26.28 AM.png>
>> Did Apple engineering really revolutionise screens by "developing pixels a 
>> mere 78 micrometers wide"?
>> 
>> Or did they buy a product that some screen manufacturer had developed?
> 
> I don't think so. There were no displays to this spec before the iPhone 4. Is 
> anyone else using a 328ppi screen on their phones? Is LG selling those 
> screens to anyone else? Nope, they are exclusive to Apple. This tells me that 
> Apple was at the by least heavily involved in them.


Apple designs HW like this all the time.  Look at their patent portfolio.

Apple was just awarded a patent for some OLED screen technology that helps cut 
down on power costs when showing whiite, for example.

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