Many of these new technologies begin with small companies which aren't financially well enough positioned to take the technology further than the beginning stages. But if a large company sees the potential, buys it, and pours money into R&D, some amazing things can happen.
That is so true. Many great ideas never realize their potential due to the lack of capital.
We don't know how far this technology had advanced before Apple took them over, and we don't know what Apple has put into it after they did. But building displays is a lot more complex than building sensors.
Well this is debatable, there are very complex sensors out there. One the other hand a display is a regular array of output devices. Once you master printing those micro LED's, displays should be easy.
If this iLED tech is efficient enough to allow 2-day or 3-day powering of an Apple Watch, great. The tech may also find it's way into other 'small screen' Apple products, such as a new iPod nano, Apple Remote, etc%u2026 Once builds become proficient enough to allow larger screens we would next see them in iPod touch and iPhones, but not for a few years. Apple could even license the tech for select companies as view displays for camera's, so long as this tech is less expensive than current tech.
I thought all of the SIM ejector tools were Liquidmetal, not just the 3G? So they've not actually been using Liquidmetal alloys at all since the late 2000s?
Most I've seen in the past few years are simpl bent wire.
Many of these new technologies begin with small companies which aren't financially well enough positioned to take the technology further than the beginning stages. But if a large company sees the potential, buys it, and pours money into R&D, some amazing things can happen.
We don't know how far this technology had advanced before Apple took them over, and we don't know what Apple has put into it after they did. But building displays is a lot more complex than building sensors.
Which is why I like Apple. Most companies only buyout other successful companies hoping their success will pay off (Motorola, etc.)
Some small guys have the best ideas but are usually too small to even notice their existence.
One thing that caught my attention in the Display Daily article was this:
"Clearly, it would be very attractive to make phone, tablet, and TV displays from inorganic LEDs, but there has been no inexpensive way to assemble LED chips into RGB arrays of the appropriate density. If it were possible, such displays could be several times as efficient as OLEDs and have longer lifetimes."
The article goes on to describe a couple of techniques that might make the above possible.
But what really caught my attention was this, at the end of the article:
"The first µ-ILED display we see in a commercial product may very well come from LuxVue and appear in an Apple iWatch next year."
iPhone is likely to be the Top 3 ( if not No.1 ) best selling model in the industry. While others like Samsung could have Notes, Sx, Edge, etc ( Each with 2 different internal config for different region ), and many other lower end model to outsell Apple by Numbers. Apple make and mostly sell 2 Model. The 6 and 6 Plus.
That is why you can no longer always put in the latest and greatest inside the iPhone. Because most of these exciting new tech can scale well enough for a launch with iPhone. That is why new tech, like Force Touch, Sapphire Screen have to be launch with Apple Watch, which is a much smaller scale. And saying small scale doesn't even justify it since we are talking about millions in short period of time.
Can you scale the production of Liquid Metal? And the machine to mold it? As a new metal, it will also take years to fine tune if Apple is going to use it as a Antenna as well, a unified Liquid Metal body without the 2 bands we are seeing right now.
Yeah, I think that's subjectable, if you like yours great but I found mine to be lacking in many areas. I first moved on from the Apple TV with a Minix and now I have a Nvidia Shield TV. Though more expensive than the Apple TV it just offers so much more. Mainly, Kodi or XBMC as it was known before. After using Kodi I just can't imagine using a device without it. Also I can video chat, play games like Portal, Doom 3, Modern Combat 3,4,5, Nova 3, Asphalt series, Real Racing series, etc, stream games from a PC, stream games from Nvidias game network, play any video format that's currently available, surf the internet with any browser of my choosing, connect a hard drive up to it, a gaming pad, keyboard with mouse, etc. I don't use iTunes for my media anymore so I guess an Apple device for my TV will never be useful as that is the only feature that I can't get on my device.
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Well this is debatable, there are very complex sensors out there. One the other hand a display is a regular array of output devices. Once you master printing those micro LED's, displays should be easy.
Only time will tell.
Most I've seen in the past few years are simpl bent wire.
Which is why I like Apple. Most companies only buyout other successful companies hoping their success will pay off (Motorola, etc.)
Some small guys have the best ideas but are usually too small to even notice their existence.
Yes this is what I meant. I'm thinking 5-10 years from now they *might* get into it.
Analysts have beaten the TV rumors to death but just because the rumors weren't true doesn't mean this isnt possible.
If these displays get cheap/efficient enough, then why not?
Because TV manufacturers SU** at innovation. 3D, 120 MHz refresh, 4k, they all just s**k at catching on and convincing consumers.
The fear and race to investigate this tech I telling. The word "disrupt" is already being used.
One thing that caught my attention in the Display Daily article was this:
"Clearly, it would be very attractive to make phone, tablet, and TV displays from inorganic LEDs, but there has been no inexpensive way to assemble LED chips into RGB arrays of the appropriate density. If it were possible, such displays could be several times as efficient as OLEDs and have longer lifetimes."
The article goes on to describe a couple of techniques that might make the above possible.
But what really caught my attention was this, at the end of the article:
"The first µ-ILED display we see in a commercial product may very well come from LuxVue and appear in an Apple iWatch next year."
If Apple could make a TV with this, then it would disrupt another market again.
Probably the plan.
Very soon, the iPad and the iPhone will become full fledged televisions.
It is all about the price and scale.
iPhone is likely to be the Top 3 ( if not No.1 ) best selling model in the industry. While others like Samsung could have Notes, Sx, Edge, etc ( Each with 2 different internal config for different region ), and many other lower end model to outsell Apple by Numbers. Apple make and mostly sell 2 Model. The 6 and 6 Plus.
That is why you can no longer always put in the latest and greatest inside the iPhone. Because most of these exciting new tech can scale well enough for a launch with iPhone. That is why new tech, like Force Touch, Sapphire Screen have to be launch with Apple Watch, which is a much smaller scale. And saying small scale doesn't even justify it since we are talking about millions in short period of time.
Can you scale the production of Liquid Metal? And the machine to mold it? As a new metal, it will also take years to fine tune if Apple is going to use it as a Antenna as well, a unified Liquid Metal body without the 2 bands we are seeing right now.
they already do.
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Yeah, I think that's subjectable, if you like yours great but I found mine to be lacking in many areas. I first moved on from the Apple TV with a Minix and now I have a Nvidia Shield TV. Though more expensive than the Apple TV it just offers so much more. Mainly, Kodi or XBMC as it was known before. After using Kodi I just can't imagine using a device without it. Also I can video chat, play games like Portal, Doom 3, Modern Combat 3,4,5, Nova 3, Asphalt series, Real Racing series, etc, stream games from a PC, stream games from Nvidias game network, play any video format that's currently available, surf the internet with any browser of my choosing, connect a hard drive up to it, a gaming pad, keyboard with mouse, etc. I don't use iTunes for my media anymore so I guess an Apple device for my TV will never be useful as that is the only feature that I can't get on my device.
In the same sense that Apple Music is "full-fledged radio" — so a redefining of "television" that has nothing to do with traditional TV.
Even Munster finally gave up.
LOL, this is when its most likely to happen...