** Caution: EXTERNAL Sender ** The use of inches for screen and projector size is universal. Sent from my iPhone
> On 21 Jun 2025, at 5:13 pm, csm--- via USMA <usma@lists.colostate.edu> wrote: > > ** Caution: EXTERNAL Sender ** > > And Apple calls itself a technology company! I recently had to replace an > laptop. The one from HP that I bought was advertized at 15.9 inches. > Obviously the screen was 40 cm. Why didn't they just say so! As a > purist, it annoys me when units are mixed, some metric, some legacy. > > ============ >> On Sat, 21 Jun 2025, Metricmike via USMA wrote: >> >> 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 > USMA@lists.colostate.edu > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list USMA@lists.colostate.edu https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma
