There are several watches on the market which have that glass. It'd be nothing new. Half a billion is for more than watch glass.
1) Why does it have to be something new for Apple to use it? Or rather, do you think Apple isn't making a wearable or wouldn't use sapphire crystal simply because it's been done before?
2) Half a billion for what? The dollar value for investing in the plant? If don't think that a watch face is sufficient use for sapphire crystal then you can't possibly think the tiny home button is sufficient and yet that's where they started with their use of sapphire.
Apple is already using Sapphire in the touch ID WITHOUT any need for this factory, so Apple needs a boatload more Sapphire for some other use.
If Apple had enough Sapphire they would have use it across the board on all devices, they didn't. After October 2014 every mobile device will have the fingerprint home button.
Why would it irk you if Samsung chose to use Sapphire glass?
Would it bother you because they are 'copying' Apple?
Does it bother you that Apple is copying Vertu?
I don't think there's much worry, unless the cost comes down substantially I don't think Samsung will switch.
Curious as to Apple's motivation for the choice. I'm hoping it has to do with them putting out a solar charging option on the phone (it wouldn't be the first phone to do this, but I'd applaud Apple for 'copying' that as well because I care more about the benefits of the technology than who is trying to hoard it).
Now that you mention it, I recall a story a few weeks ago about an Apple Store having one of it's huge glass panels shattered by a snow-blower. Perhaps the sapphire could be used for the store-fronts! Make 'em less susceptible to breakage by snow-blowers, errant automobiles, thieves, etc.
Now that you mention it, I recall a story a few weeks ago about an Apple Store having one of it's huge glass panels shattered by a snow-blower. Perhaps the sapphire could be used for the store-fronts! Make 'em less susceptible to breakage by snow-blowers, errant automobiles, thieves, etc.
Now, if they put a new Apple Store in Cairo, Egypt, right down by the river there, and use the sapphire for the windows, it'd be a real Jewel of the Nile.
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1) Why does it have to be something new for Apple to use it? Or rather, do you think Apple isn't making a wearable or wouldn't use sapphire crystal simply because it's been done before?
2) Half a billion for what? The dollar value for investing in the plant? If don't think that a watch face is sufficient use for sapphire crystal then you can't possibly think the tiny home button is sufficient and yet that's where they started with their use of sapphire.
Apple is already using Sapphire in the touch ID WITHOUT any need for this factory, so Apple needs a boatload more Sapphire for some other use.
Apple is already using Sapphire in the touch ID WITHOUT any need for this factory, so Apple needs a boatload more Sapphire for some other use.
If Apple had enough Sapphire they would have use it across the board on all devices, they didn't. After October 2014 every mobile device will have the fingerprint home button.
SameScam announces sapphire glass in 3...2...1...
I hate hate hate ScamScum.
Why would it irk you if Samsung chose to use Sapphire glass?
Would it bother you because they are 'copying' Apple?
Does it bother you that Apple is copying Vertu?
I don't think there's much worry, unless the cost comes down substantially I don't think Samsung will switch.
Curious as to Apple's motivation for the choice. I'm hoping it has to do with them putting out a solar charging option on the phone (it wouldn't be the first phone to do this, but I'd applaud Apple for 'copying' that as well because I care more about the benefits of the technology than who is trying to hoard it).
The entire spaceship campus is being clad in it.
Now that you mention it, I recall a story a few weeks ago about an Apple Store having one of it's huge glass panels shattered by a snow-blower. Perhaps the sapphire could be used for the store-fronts! Make 'em less susceptible to breakage by snow-blowers, errant automobiles, thieves, etc.
Now that you mention it, I recall a story a few weeks ago about an Apple Store having one of it's huge glass panels shattered by a snow-blower. Perhaps the sapphire could be used for the store-fronts! Make 'em less susceptible to breakage by snow-blowers, errant automobiles, thieves, etc.
Now, if they put a new Apple Store in Cairo, Egypt, right down by the river there, and use the sapphire for the windows, it'd be a real Jewel of the Nile.
(ducking & running now)
The entire spaceship campus is being clad in it.
That would be really funny.
The first unscratchable campus in the world!