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Originally Posted by DNSB
4:3 is just a gimmick by Apple? I seem to remember a time not so long ago when 4:3 was the aspect ratio for monitors--remember when 1024x768 was high resolution? 640x480? 800x600? 720x350 (bonus points for remembering which graphics card used that resolution and why the second number was actually 348).
Perhaps you can remember any number of tablets that were released prior to Apple's first iPad that sported a 16x9 aspect ratio?
My personal opinion is that 16x9 in portrait mode is just too tall and too narrow. Justifying text gives too many lines with massive chunks of white space. Admittedly, this is using a 2013 Nexus 7 which has a 1980x1200 (16x10) screen but I suspect making the screen even narrower is not going to help.
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The 4:3 is a marketing gimmick to imply that it is like reading a book. Some of us are not concerned with the ratio of the display/physical tablet(?) or even the ratio of the text displayed.
The video ratio is important on tv only because of the original film ratio being display. want to see letter boxing with the black lines or zoom in to get rid of the black lines but see only part of the picture.
I have no idea what the ratio of my Palm Pilot or Tunsten II nor do I care when I got it; the display ratio wasn't even specified or that it did.
I do not believe my B&N Nook 1st edition ever mentioned its ratio nor did I care. The main things about a reader is price & resolution for whatever size one prefer or care to pay. My B&N Nook HDX 8.9 is supposed to have neither 16:9 or 4:3 as I've read nor did I care when I bought it.
apple just wanted people to believe that the 4:3 ratio is the only way to read a book & never mind that we have books of different ratios on the bookcase & that people will adjust the text display ratio for whatever comfortable it is for them. So is the apple 'trademark' of a 'retina screen' preferable to another company's plain screen that has a higher resolution than the 'retina' screen? I do recall with the intro of the Mac 512 apple claimed that "all you need is the icon" on the computer; always wonder why a keyboard was part of the apple computer.
The iphone now has a "notch"; does that make it better as a phone? The other companies should use it to their advantage by using the "notch" area for a status line/menu. Did the notch appear on the iphone because apple was not able to have their hardware accommodate a full screen & so came up with idea the notch is a "feature"?