Sapphire or not, can’t wait to molest me an iPhone 6 in a store. [SIZE=72px]CAN WE PLEASE FIRE THESE ANALYSTS? OR SOMETHING? WHAT IS THE POINT OF A JOB IF YOU DON’T HAVE TO DO IT WELL?[/SIZE]
I wonder why they didn't just say new gorilla glass. That would have been better for marketing due to familiarity with existing gorilla glass products. Instead we get ion strengthened glass.
To be fair, Apple doubled the world's production of sapphire with the Mesa plant. Why that much capacity for just buttons and watch covers?
I believe Apple was only using something like $17 million worth of sapphire from Rubicon prior to GTAT firing up.
Even if we assume that Apple needs $50 million worth of sapphire for the iPhone line and the Watch, it makes no sense to invest hundreds of millions the Mesa plant and loan $578 million which they may not get back if Apple isn't buying large quantities of sapphire from GTAT.
1800 employees. Million square feet facility. 2000 ovens. For some lens covers, home buttons and a watch to launch in 2015? Something's up.
kind of nice how the glass curves around at the edges. Maybe sapphire will be used when the whole casing becomes glass and the metal trim is ditched (iPhone 7?)...if that's even possible from a technical standpoint.
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I’ll molest a 5.5”; I’ll fondle a 4.7”. One implies lack of desire. Perhaps more accurately, the 5.5” will molest me.
I’ll molest a 5.5”; I’ll fondle a 4.7”. One implies lack of desire. Perhaps more accurately, the 5.5” will molest me.
You might want to get there after hours then
I think the sensors lenses are probably sapphire, just not the top cover, which is essentially GG3.
It's a good thing is moisture resistant.
As Sundance might say - 'You just keep thinking Butch (Margolis), that's what you're good at'
It's Gorilla Glass 3. It's ion-infused alkali-aluminosilicate sheet toughened glass.
I believe Apple was only using something like $17 million worth of sapphire from Rubicon prior to GTAT firing up.
Even if we assume that Apple needs $50 million worth of sapphire for the iPhone line and the Watch, it makes no sense to invest hundreds of millions the Mesa plant and loan $578 million which they may not get back if Apple isn't buying large quantities of sapphire from GTAT.
1800 employees. Million square feet facility. 2000 ovens. For some lens covers, home buttons and a watch to launch in 2015? Something's up.
Hope she is doing well.
Sapphire or not, can’t wait to molest me an iPhone 6 in a store.
Not up for a little 'molesting plus'???
oh…I forgot, you hate the 'Hagrid' model, huh? ;-)
iPhone 6S - S will be for Sapphire (and hopefully also wireleSS charging) this time, like 4S was for Siri and 5S was for Security.
Ya' know, I just don't care…been carrying this brickuva iPhone4 in my pocket
with coins and keys and crap and no case for 4 years,
and I just don't see the point of worrying, given how it still looks. Finger oils are more of a distraction,
and I don't much care about that, either. It's like Ive (?) told us about the iPad: "toss it in your car, its
designed to be used, not babied"…or words to that effect.
So, for me anyhow, they are tough enough already, so any amount of tougher is cool.
…does seem a strange strategy, though, to NOT put the toughest material
on the model that will get the most abuse.
That right there subtly says more about the 'fashion focus' than anything else could.
I’ll molest a 5.5”; I’ll fondle a 4.7”. One implies lack of desire. Perhaps more accurately, the 5.5” will molest me.
you sure you can even do that one-handed?