16:9
There’s nothing magical about the 16:9 aspect ratio. It is suitable for one thing and one thing only: video. And even there, it’s not the Holy Grail. Some of the greatest movies of all time were shot in 4:3. Your theater most likely shows movies in 2.39:1. You want epic? Try Ultra-Panavision 70 at 2.75:1 or Polyvision at 4:1. None of these show “more” or “less” than each other; that depends on the screen size, not the aspect ratio.
In landscape orientation, anything between 4:3 and 2.39:1 feels natural to humans. Now switch to portrait - 16:9 feels pretty weird. Legal-sized paper and certain issues of the ACME Novelty Library fit oddly in your hands, and so would a skinny screen.
Every aspect ratio is a compromise. If a device is ever to be used in portrait mode - and my guess is that people will use the iPad in this book-like mode most of the time - that compromise must result in something closer to 4:3.
I’m ambivalent to 16:9 vs 4:3 in the iPad.
However, I actually prefer the old iMacs to the new “16x9 iMacs” because the screen was 1:1.62 — the Golden Ratio.
In fact, many Apple products are Golden: the screen on the iPhone, MacBooks, Airport Express, Apple mice. In general Apple takes care of the proportion of their products. Think: Cube.
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I’m ambivalent to...iPad. However, I actually prefer...old...
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Neven Mrgan gets it. There...no “standard” aspect ratio, just different ones
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