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Because Apple is ordering ~25M units of that display panel but PC vendors are not.

Or because Apple gives customers what they need but PC vendors give customers what they want.



Laptop customers have begged for 4:3 screens, but were told that display vendors had all switched to 16:9 because of movies. Yet Apple managed to find/mandate production of 4:3 high-res screens.




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