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behnamohtoday at 6:18 PM3 repliesview on HN

Steve Jobs would roll in his grave due to lack of symmetry in this.


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jedbergtoday at 6:19 PM

Actually I think he would appreciate the beauty in using 1:1.4, the same as metric paper, to maintain the ratio.

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t1234stoday at 6:22 PM

Having watched the original iPhone event live, bringing the pencil to the iphone would make him roll over in his grave.

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ndarraytoday at 6:43 PM

Would probably push the engineers to deliver three-way foldables like the Huawei Mate XT from two years ago. The two-way folding phones are wasting a screen and will go down in history as an abomination. The weird 1:1.4 width:height ratio wouldn't be necessary if you could 3x the screen size instead of only 2x. At 3x, the ratio could be 1:1.73 folded, giving you 3:1.73 unfolded (which equals 1.73:1). 1.73 is much closer to 16:9 (1.77) than 1.4 is.