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Aug
11
The Widescreen Contradiction
Filed Under Insights | 3 Comments
Most applications that we seem to be using more of, seem to be better suited to vertical screen orientations, such as the kind you’d use a Tablet PC with. Think Word, Acrobat, web browsers - page-oriented applications, and chat clients, music players (playlists) - list-oriented ones. Only Outlook, Excel and movie players are truly “widescreen” oriented.