First they had the greatest idea of all times: Joining the dark side of the force, windows... Now they make fun of Apple users as if they were zombies http://www.shinyshiny.tv/2013/06/has_nokia_just_1.html (and yes we are, i can admit that even though I personally "just" have a macbook pro, an ipad and an ipod to play with) buuuut what is Microsoft if not one of the biggest and most "my stomach aches, where is the bathroom?" monopoly on the planet?!
Finally, greatest idea of all time, they come up with a 41 millions pixels smartphone http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/8/4503382/nokia-lumia-1020-sample-photo-joe-belfiore-flickr and seriously, what's the point to put golden wheels to your car (or bicycle for the poorest and/or more nature friendly) unless you wanna make it slower?
Looks fancy and all, sure, but have fun uploading your GIGA pixels pictures where it pleases you and we'd be talking!
Well sure, now speed and space is starting to be not too much of an issue and maybe it's actually the linear illusion of progress that is making me a sceptic for a change for once doubting the exponential reality growth of the present we live in value (if this one has any), so maybe 41 MP is NOT ONLY a bullshit marketing argument that "mister everybody" can paradoxically think he understands since promoting a bigger lens and/or sensor wouldn't make him care much even though that's what really matters in a camera.
And apparently they did a pretty good job if the article's picture had really been taken by the camera promoted. But then why 41 MP would be of any more use than, as usually, making fools of people like us the walking wallets?
I have a 15" retina display which is a little over 5MP and actually it's also quite unnecessary since
A LOT less pixels would have been far enough to make it "retina" (when you can't distinguish pixels at all with your bare eyes from the distance where you are). It's all explained here BTW: http://www.cultofmac.com/168509/why-you-might-be-disappointed-by-the-resolution-of-those-new-retina-display-macs-feature/
But now that everybody is on the foolish pixels race the 41MP phone all makes more sense (or even LESS)!!
Soon we'll commonly have 27inch Retina displays with tones and tones of useless pixels packed together but what we'll get in about a decade (beside our body extension, the Google glass http://www.google.com/glass/start/ and its competitors) might be our gigantic "walls" turning into multi displays so if we kept (and we obviously won't) the same technology then a display of a little less than 3 times the diagonal of a 15", so let's say about 41 inch wide, just as your standard HDTV, would be necessary to take full advantage of the 41MP pictures.
Basically, this means that if greedy manufacturers produced RetinaTV display for obvious marketing reasons with the same resolution as the macbook pro 15" retina which also has an absurd resolution of 220p per inch then the 41MP camera would make more sense to be seen from "very" close on such big screens and unless you are ready for big times headaches or are obsessed by details and/or an expert photographer or art critic then this is just totally absurd since at the first place you wouldn't be using your phone to snap the world around you, at least not as your main camera! check this out too: http://gizmodo.com/5926295/your-tv-is-a-retina-display
And to briefly get back on "walls" that might be used as future displays, probably the technology will be very different involving holograms and other stuff that I'm still not very familiar with...
So, to make a long story short and as you probably already know if you are familiar with new technologies, when you see anything with a big and fancy number of pixels out there hitting the market "mind the gap" because big chances are that the only thing it's gonna hit is your walking wallet (and I own a MBP retina so I can tell)...
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