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xattt ◴[] No.42153046[source]
I’ve noticed similar “mini” news stories trickle out after Apple’s announcements. Does this happen organically, or does PR drop tidbits like this to select sources?

It seems like a very specific thing for a reporter to ask and find out about.

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Syonyk ◴[] No.42153233[source]
Look at the Tweet (X? Blurp? What do we call them now?) - it's got the spectrum of the panel, comparing previous and newer panels.

If you know what you're looking for in those, you can identify a lot of different phosphor configurations just by the particular shape of the RGB peaks - the older ones have a distinctive multi-peaked red emission that I've seen in various LED bulbs as well over the years.

I doubt Apple mentioned it to anyone. Applying a spectrometer to any new light emitting device is just the sort of thing some people enjoy doing.

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redrove ◴[] No.42154790[source]
> Look at the Tweet (X? Blurp? What do we call them now?)

X-crement

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1. MengerSponge ◴[] No.42154946[source]
xeet, with the x pronounced like Nahuatl: "sh"

https://pages.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/resources/PronouncingNahuat...

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2. Fr3ck ◴[] No.42156138[source]
Now you can say things like, "I just xeeted" or "Did you see that xeet?"