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The Talk Show With John Gruber

93: ‘Toner-Perfect Design’ With Craig Hockenberry

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2014

⏱️ 144 minutes

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Summary

Speculation on the purportedly-imminent new 4.7- and 5.5-inch iPhones, and the rise of adaptive user interface layout and design on iOS. @3x, here we come.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is gonna be an interesting conversation.

0:02.0

Yeah, because we're just totally freaking gassing about everything here.

0:07.7

You know, it's funny. I'm not totally guessing.

0:11.9

It is easily, maybe the thing I wrote about iPhone screensizes is maybe the most

0:17.5

John Gruberian thing I've ever written. Like it's not totally out of the blue, but it's

0:24.3

absolutely positively not informed by a single person who's actually seen or touched

0:29.3

a new iPhone. Right. But. But I have talked to some people who claim to have talked to

0:39.6

people who have seen or touched new iPhone. Right. So it's not, you know, the big one,

0:46.8

the big one and the one that, and we can, I don't know, I think we'll do a good job

0:52.2

of trying to explain this thing, some of these things to everybody. But the one that to

0:56.5

me is weird is this idea of a 750 by 1334 iPhone. Because if that's the pixel count,

1:06.5

you divide by two to get the points and they're both odd numbers, 375 by it's 667.

1:15.2

Yeah. And that's a little weird. Not quite as weird as a phone that had odd pixels, but

1:22.4

odd point is a little bit weird. Well, the one that you're thinking for the 4.7-inch display,

1:31.7

you know, the 1334 by 750. That's just...

1:42.8

I'm sorry. Well, you know, for people who are out there and probably not going,

1:48.0

well, what was the matter? Odd numbers, even numbers. All programming is like binary. Right.

1:54.6

It's powers of two on and off. You know, everything is nicely, you know, you can do a division by

2:02.3

two by just shifting a binary digit, you know, one place to the right. Everything is just kind of

2:08.9

really nice when it's, you know, some fact or some power of two. We start talking about a three,

2:16.8

it's like, oh, and it's just in some ways it's a little arbitrary. I mean, the factor of two,

2:23.3

the factors of two is our magic numbers. I've been talking to Jonas about that and he's actually

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