That's ridiculous. Apple has the money to buy anything they want. If there are enough OLED screens for TVs and Android phones, Apple could easily get them instead.
Money? Apple does not know what to do with all that money. Apple has no leadership.
There are not enough OLED screens for TVs. No one sells OLED TV yet, and those will be sold soon in very limited quantities. OLED TV panels would not work for phones anyway. Samsung controls 95% of OLED manufacturing wich is mainly its Galaxy phones. In order to provide OLED screens for Apple, Samsung would have to more then double the manufacturing capacity which is a huge task taking a couple of years. That is when we will see OLED iPhones.
That's ridiculous. Apple has the money to buy anything they want. If there are enough OLED screens for TVs and Android phones, Apple could easily get them instead.
That isn't true. Samsung is by far the largest manufacturer of OLED panels for phones by a wide margin. A couple years ago, they actually downgraded the screen in their Wave 2 model to an LCD, when the original model had an OLED screen. They did this to divert OLED production capacity to the Galaxy S II to meet demand. Samsung couldn't have met Apples requirements and their own, so it doesn't really matter that Apple had the money, Samsung didn't have the capacity.
I think they have increased their production capacity ten fold recently, but I suspect even so, they wouldn't have much capacity beyond that needed to meet the demand for their own devices.
And no way is there enough production capacity for TVs. Samsung were supposed to have their large panel OLED TV on sale by the end of last year, but that has slipped.
Last year, Samsung suffered a shocking theft of their OLED production IP through industrial espionage by an Israeli firm they had contracted for quality assurance. Some people believed the theft was largely at the behest of very large Chinese panel maker. Perhaps that Chinese company will soon be able to make large OLED panels and could supply Apple for the touted TV, but Samsung has no spare capacity for large panels whatsoever.
Last year, Samsung suffered a shocking theft of their OLED production IP through industrial espionage by an Israeli firm they had contracted for quality assurance. Some people believed the theft was largely at the behest of very large Chinese panel maker. Perhaps that Chinese company will soon be able to make large OLED panels and could supply Apple for the touted TV, but Samsung has no spare capacity for large panels whatsoever.
By Samsung's reasoning, this will be good for innovation.
My feeling was that Cook panned the OLED's because Apple was going to partner with Sharp to produce IGZO (Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide)screens that have higher resoultion and use less power, but maybe LG has found a way to make OLED's work.
Read an interesting article in Forbes this morning...what if all this talk about an "iWatch" is actually about a TV and not a wristwatch? As in "iWatch TV"? Could all this wristwatch stuff be a smokescreen?
IGZO can be applied to OLED. It has to do with the material used to make the active matrix.
Here's an interesting turn and it has to do with HP.
Remember webOS? HP never completely killed it, altho it's been in a deep slumber. Now according to TheVerge comes LG who's bought up the rights, source code and all the patents. They're also bringing over HP employees still working with webOS. For what you might ask? For their smartTV line of course.
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Originally Posted by jragosta
That's ridiculous. Apple has the money to buy anything they want. If there are enough OLED screens for TVs and Android phones, Apple could easily get them instead.
Money? Apple does not know what to do with all that money. Apple has no leadership.
There are not enough OLED screens for TVs. No one sells OLED TV yet, and those will be sold soon in very limited quantities. OLED TV panels would not work for phones anyway. Samsung controls 95% of OLED manufacturing wich is mainly its Galaxy phones. In order to provide OLED screens for Apple, Samsung would have to more then double the manufacturing capacity which is a huge task taking a couple of years. That is when we will see OLED iPhones.
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Originally Posted by jragosta
That's ridiculous. Apple has the money to buy anything they want. If there are enough OLED screens for TVs and Android phones, Apple could easily get them instead.
That isn't true. Samsung is by far the largest manufacturer of OLED panels for phones by a wide margin. A couple years ago, they actually downgraded the screen in their Wave 2 model to an LCD, when the original model had an OLED screen. They did this to divert OLED production capacity to the Galaxy S II to meet demand. Samsung couldn't have met Apples requirements and their own, so it doesn't really matter that Apple had the money, Samsung didn't have the capacity.
I think they have increased their production capacity ten fold recently, but I suspect even so, they wouldn't have much capacity beyond that needed to meet the demand for their own devices.
And no way is there enough production capacity for TVs. Samsung were supposed to have their large panel OLED TV on sale by the end of last year, but that has slipped.
Last year, Samsung suffered a shocking theft of their OLED production IP through industrial espionage by an Israeli firm they had contracted for quality assurance. Some people believed the theft was largely at the behest of very large Chinese panel maker. Perhaps that Chinese company will soon be able to make large OLED panels and could supply Apple for the touted TV, but Samsung has no spare capacity for large panels whatsoever.
By Samsung's reasoning, this will be good for innovation.
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Originally Posted by Jordon Eagan
My feeling was that Cook panned the OLED's because Apple was going to partner with Sharp to produce IGZO (Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide)screens that have higher resoultion and use less power, but maybe LG has found a way to make OLED's work.
Read an interesting article in Forbes this morning...what if all this talk about an "iWatch" is actually about a TV and not a wristwatch? As in "iWatch TV"? Could all this wristwatch stuff be a smokescreen?
IGZO can be applied to OLED. It has to do with the material used to make the active matrix.
Here's an interesting turn and it has to do with HP.
Remember webOS? HP never completely killed it, altho it's been in a deep slumber. Now according to TheVerge comes LG who's bought up the rights, source code and all the patents. They're also bringing over HP employees still working with webOS. For what you might ask? For their smartTV line of course.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/25/4027018/lg-buys-webos-smart-tv
They noted that CNet has pulled their report on it for unexplained reasons. Perhaps they jumped the gun?
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13970_7-57570990-78/webos-lives-lg-to-resurrect-it-for-smart-tvs/