Apple realizes there's diminishing returns in upping the resolution beyond what your eyes can see. So they hit Retina, and then move on to focus on color accuracy, brightness, and contrast.
They do this throughout their product stack. Only as much RAM as their phones actually need, because RAM is both costly in terms of BOM and also consumes battery life.
Using fewer Megapixels than competing phones because it's about the quality, not quantity, when other manufacturers trip over themselves to have the most Megapixels.
When your customers are picking a product based off a spec sheet, that's the trap you easily fall into.
It's still not enough resolution for x2 upscaling that Apple argues optimal.
Apple's focus and commitment can be a pain to users who want something different, but overall it's a huge strategic advantage.
Software developers are building their apps for M1 because they know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Apple isn't going to keep Intel around any longer than they have to, whereas Microsoft had and will continue to have a hard time persuading anyone to adopt ARM Windows because the opposite is true.
But Wintel will own business desktops for probably a decade, unfortunately.
Do you see this as being different from what was going on pre-M1?
Aside from shared math libraries, seems like most stuff required cross compilation just to work - I’m not clear that M1 adds more work on top of that.
Apple, what are you thinking? People who can afford that display might want to connect their desktop mac and their laptop to it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Inspiron_laptops
That's about 130+ish dpi and it was unmatched for years: I know I had one and was depressed to see dpi do down and down afterwards :)
Hopefully Apple restarted the dpi race.
Other manufacturers seem to be completely oblivious to it. They still equip their laptops either with full hd or 4k screens. The resulting ppi are all over the place. Sometimes way to low (bad quality) or way to high (4k in an 13" laptop, halves the runtime). Same with standalone screens, there is a good selection around 100ppi, but for "high res" the manufacturers just offer 4k in whatever size, so once again the ppi are all over the place again.