You can redefine screen size into some absurd bullshit, but that just means you are crazy, not that you are right.
Except they are not redefining it, that is how it is always advertised. Nobody advertises screen size based on actual area, it is diagonal size.
You can bitch about that being the standard way people report it, but don't blame individual people when they use the same standard everybody else does.
No, a screen diagonal is advertised, not a screen size. That’s misleading and bad and all that, but at least it’s not a flat out lie.
If you then go on and talk about some screen being larger based on its diagonal while it’s not you are wrong, wrong, wrong. It’s unacceptable. Completely. It’s crazy to even think that’s even a little bit ok.
Screen size was never defined as the diagonal. The diagonal is just that, a diagonal. It tells you something about the screen size and is an awesome proxy if you are comparing devices with the same aspect ratio, but it doesn’t make smaller screens actually larger. That’s just insane.
The diagonal is a proxy and always has been, never anything else.
Except they are not redefining it, that is how it is always advertised. Nobody advertises screen size based on actual area, it is diagonal size.
You can bitch about that being the standard way people report it, but don't blame individual people when they use the same standard everybody else does.