What does this sentence even mean? 5 mm is 50% thinner than 10 mm. Does someone really need to explain this to you?
It's not "50% thinner", because "50% thinner" doesn't mean anything.
Or specifically it can mean two things, and the way marketers use it is always the opposite of what they want you to assume it means.
You could use a ratio and say that 5mm is 1/2 the thickness of 10mm. That's fine.
But everything goes to crap when you use percentages for one simple reason:
10mm is not 150% the thickness of 5mm.
So you could say 7.5mm is 50% thicker than 5mm.
So, no. You're wrong. 5mm is not 50% thinner then 10mm. That's just what they want you to think. Marketers know you assume that, and they use that assumption to lie to you. Apparently you believe their implication blindly, without checking the math.
Apple always talks about how much thinner their new iphone is. Based only on marketing, how thick would you assume a current iPhone is, when compared to the original? Because the 7.8mm iPhone 15 is only 3.8mm thinner thinner than the original's 11.6mm.
Maybe that's a bad example though, because the iPhone 15 is 113% the thickness of the 6.9mm iPhone 6.
Ifyou say your new 5mm thing is 50% thinner than the old thing, you might mean the old thing was 10mm
... But what would a salesman say? Would they tell the literal truth, or would they stretch the truth to make their product look better?
Based on how marketers abuse math and language, it was almost certainly 7.5mm, and they simply want to trick you into believing they new thing cut the thickness in half, when really they only reduced it by a third.
It always works this way, and it's very frustrating.
In the context of an electronics press release, 5mm would never be 50% thinner than 10mm. It would always be 100% thinner.
Of course they would also never say 100% thinner, because they know it sounds weird.
They don't have to worry about it too much though, because new iterations of products almost never reduce their thickness by half.
LG has begun mass production of the panels and customers have started mass producing their products based on this panel. It's just standard supply chain stuff, it always runs in parallel. What exactly are you unable to grasp?
I'm unable to grasp why LG is announcing their new panel tech is barely starting mass production when clearly it's been in production long enough for Dell to design a product around it, mass produce that product, send that product to reviewers, and for those reviews to be published.
Do you think Dell sent out prototype laptops based on non-final preproduction hardware out for review, or do you just think all those steps take, like, an hour?
More specifically, I'm not grasping why this press release kept getting reposted, verbatim, without anybody calling out how it was either very late, or just total trash.
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