No, I think his outburst was in support of AMOLED. It was in response to others complaining about it.
Will the AMOLED be sunlight readable like the N900's transflective screen?
The N900's screen may be 'transfective' but I would never, ever, ever call it 'sunlight readable'.
Also the Nokia N9 featured clear black technology. This is a clever trick with polarization, which essentially blocks all reflected sunlight in the display. Converting it to heat. In detail explained here. It works quite well (of course not perfect), but has the disadvantage, that the display heats up very fast in sunlight.
I guess modern AMOLED displays use this too? I never checked.
You do realise where you are right? on the website for people still using n900s.
I don't care much about screen technology, even so I don't like the oversaturated colours of AMOLEDs. And I still miss the precise input possibility of the resitistive N900 Screen. (Please Chen give me a stylus)
But regarding screen size and aspect ratio I care a lot. So the over all size of a phone is a very important point for me. Regarding aspect ratio: what is gained with 2:1? Most content where a larger screen is of relevance comes in 16:9 or even 4:3 or even 3:2: Movies and pictures.
And sometimes sitting in a cave seems to be not the worst place, because new is not automatically better.
Well, better living in a huge cave, than in your very limited New Age universe.
By the way I sometimes watch old movies and guess what: They are most of the time very very good despite the fact, they are not 4K and they are 4:3 and sometimes they even miss colour. Whereas I've seen a lot of crapy 4K, ultrawidescreen, HDR and whatever movies.
I would say iPhone 4S is the perfect size.
I like to watch old movies too. They come with black stripes on top and bottom and - as someone said recently - if there is a duel of two gunmen you might only see the guns but the heroes get cut on the left an right off the screen by the cropping. That's because it has been a film made for cinema 21:9, that got cut down for old tv format 4:3.
E-inks are great. I would pay extra for an option to have an e-ink only. No LCD, no OLED, just e-ink. (Or two: one as the screen and one under a transparent keyboard dome sheet for an easily reconfigurable keyboard.)
Though he wasn't very polite, I understood fully what he was saying (I think...). He was commenting on the fact that the conversation as a whole was taking issue with the modern components that Chen has chosen to use. Everyone was seemingly asking for "outdated" hardware instead of the "newest and best". So, from his point of view, the desire for "outdated" hardware could only be the direct result of those people living in a cave without the ability for discover newer and "superior" technology.