roundaboutnow

Soli said:

roundaboutnow said:

Soli said:

1) Maybe that's still an exceptionally large number, but looking at the number of products Apple sells with displays I'd expect that Apple would outnumber all those other company's mentioned, especially when you look at products with displays from all companies and how they relate to profits.

2) I hope microLED bears fruit soon.

SID/Display Week gives out "Best in Show" awards. I saw a press release that one of the awards was for microLED, but the SID website hasn't been updated with the 2018 awards yet...

...found the press release from AUO:
https://www.auo.com/en-global/New_Archive/detail/News_Archive_Awords_20180524

Do you think microLED is ready for mass production at costs and quality that are feasible for Apple's needs this year? I'd think that if it's possible that even just the Series 4 Apple Watch, even if just in the higher-end Watches, would be a great fit to get microLED to market.

I don’t know about this year, but I would not put it past Apple to surprise us all. 
Here is a good source of microLED info:
https://www.ledinside.com/taxonomy/term/16313

Soli said:

1) Maybe that's still an exceptionally large number, but looking at the number of products Apple sells with displays I'd expect that Apple would outnumber all those other company's mentioned, especially when you look at products with displays from all companies and how they relate to profits.

2) I hope microLED bears fruit soon.

SID/Display Week gives out "Best in Show" awards. I saw a press release that one of the awards was for microLED, but the SID website hasn't been updated with the 2018 awards yet...

...found the press release from AUO:
https://www.auo.com/en-global/New_Archive/detail/News_Archive_Awords_20180524

Last year, I had a swollen battery on an older (early 2011) 13" MBP. I know it would not be eligible (and I have since traded it in anyway), but I wanted to mention this just as FYI:

My old 13" did not hold a charge, and I knew battery was getting old, but it was mostly being used on charger at a desk, so I was not worried about the battery issue initially.

The symptom that I ran into was that the trackpad stopped working--it wouldn't click anymore. I thought it might be a bad trackpad (hinge or something), but when I opened it up, I saw the swollen battery, which was pressing against the trackpad, preventing it from clicking. A new (3rd party) battery fixed it (and was actually fairly easy to do), but that was the sign that it was time to get a new one...

Ended up getting a non-touch bar 13", so its good to know about this warranty program, so I can keep an eye this one!

The one failing of Dropbox is when someone invites me to "share" their folder, their stuff then uses up my storage allowance. (I'm cheap and just have the free version). If all they are trying to do is transfer files, I have to tell them just to send a link, not to share.

I prefer the way Box.com works, where if a folder is shared by someone, you basically get a link to the owners folder, where it then just shows up as a shared folder on your list of folders.

Phronk said:

"iTunes Match is included with Apple Music "

This isn't true. Unless something's changed recently, they've always been separate services. Apple Music has some features similar to iTunes Match, but lacks others, such as DRM-free download of the music you match. I subscribe to both, because I'm dumb and use Match as a backup for all my music, so I can delete it from my local hard drive, but could always, in theory, download it from the cloud at some point in the future.

This was discussed here about a month ago. I looked into it at that time and found that about a year ago, things did in fact change.

According to Apple and the very helpful iMore article, Apple Music includes "all the benefits of iTunes Match" (and it seems without attaching DRM, like it used to):

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204146 

https://www.imore.com/do-i-still-need-itunes-match-if-i-have-apple-music