** Caution: EXTERNAL Sender ** As an IT person originally from Europe - screen sizes were always in inches in every country I lived in. It's more an abstract number used to compare relative sizes of screens (I know old engineers who built cities but have no idea how big an "inch" is). But the entire industry standard is double-flawed for screens today. It made some sense when all screens were 4:3 aspect ratio, but today we use 16:9, 16:10, 21:9, 3:2, for computer screens, plus all the random aspect ratios for phones. Just specifying diagonal is not useful at all, and we should use W/H in mm for this to make sense. As for Apple tablets and laptops, those are not that widely used outside of USA, especially not in business settings, and they never followed any standards so most of us never cared what they did.
On Sat, Jun 21, 2025 at 7:22 AM Metricmike via USMA <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: ** Caution: EXTERNAL Sender ** Hello All, I notice frustratingly that Apple the electronics company, has screen sizes in inches only (probably rounded to the nearest inch) worldwide on their websites and in the stores, despite the fact that few people outside North America and the UK use inches. I was in Australia earlier this year getting a iPad for my brother and all the screen sizes were in inches only, all over the store. I asked why? It's an Apple policy apparently. Might as well have been in cubits for all it meant to everyone under 60 in Australia. The person in the store had no idea what the size was in millimetres nor how to convert it. Submit your thoughts on this to Apple.com/feedback. Mike Payne _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma
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