nadriel

Bilateral is a terrible word for something that explains bidirectional property.

Bilateral sounds more like the possibility to charge the phone from both sides, screen and back.

That being said, induction is one of the most inefficient ways to charge anything, and it’s not wireless, just contactless. Inductive charging has been a thing for a long time, why marketing speak has been allowed to make up new names for old tech?

I wonder what apple means that Ireland is not important in strategic planning? Financially the location, location over all or in corporate operations?

There must’ve been a huge incentive over usual hubs in Europe that Google too decided to locate their HQs in Europe to Ireland, Ireland isn’t really in the middle of action. But I hope that if this all along has been a tax haven loophole it gets closed, all profit in unpaid taxes get repaid.

As the article said, we’ll see in a couple of years what is the verdict, but currently doesn’t look like good practice has been followed. 

The problem is that Ireland abused the union by working as a tax haven for multinationals and giving itself unfair advantage over other union countries within the union and at the union level loss of tax money.

I have to pay back taxes if I pay too little. So does everyone around the globe even after a long time. Why do companies deserve special treatment even if their income is ridiculous amounts of money?

I’m waiting for the Apple Card bend tests. 

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blastdoor said:

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1STnTENDERBITS said:

2016- mLED possibly coming to Apple Watch in 2017 https://appleinsider.com/articles/16/06/24/rumor-apple-developing-power-efficient-micro-led-panels-for-2017-apple-watch

2017- mLED possibly coming to Apple Watch in 2018 https://www.macrumors.com/2017/06/07/apple-watch-track-micro-led-2018/

2018- mLED possibly coming to Apple Watch in 2019 https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/04/03/apple-and-tsmc-could-start-apple-watch-microled-display-mass-production-later-this-year

2019- mLED possibly coming to Apple Watch in 2020 - this article.

Erbody just guessin'.  Eventually someone will be right... unless mLED turns out to be not viable like AirPower or mass production of sapphire glass screens.  My personal guess is this will be true mid 2022-2023 for the Apple Watch.  Late 2021-Early 2022 for Oppo, Xiaomi, or another of the Chinese brands.  Early 2022-2023 for Samsung.  Look at that... I am an analyst.  

Excellent post! 

Somewhat relatedly.... if the stories about the AR glasses being delayed are true, I wonder if it's because of delays with mLED. I'm guessing the critical enabling technologies of AR Glasses are (1) SOC fabrication technology, (2) mLED, and (3?) solid state battery. 

TSMC is doing their part -- sounds like 5nm is on target. So it's the other two that represent the big unknowns. 

it makes sense, though, that the watch would be the proving ground for mLED and solid state battery. The year we see an Apple watch with those technologies is possibly the year before we see AR glasses. 

SOC and battery may be hindrances for the AR glasses but I don't think mLED is a hindrance.  AR glasses will require transparency to see the 'R' in AR - augmented reality.  Afaik, an mLED panel wouldn't be transparent or even translucent.  Ironically, OLED is just starting to demonstrate viable commercial applications for transparent screens.  VR though, is a field that could definitely benefit from the attributes of mLED screen tech.  AR, not so much.

I would just point out that AR on the iPhone does not involve a transparent screen. AR glasses could look like sunglasses (not transparent lenses). 

Why would you point out that AR on the iPhone does not involve a transparent screen?  That has nothing to do with what we've been discussing.  You mentioned AR glasses.  mLED would have nothing to do with AR glasses.  Sunglasses would be either transparent or translucent depending on the level of opacity.  As I said in my earlier quote, mLED is neither transparent nor translucent.  It is a substrate for a screen, not something you can see through.  AR glasses will be for looking through.  

Instead of me trying to convince you, how about we let you convince you.  Present your idea where mLED would be used in AR glasses.  Very quickly you'll realize you'll be describing a VR headset.

Like chain fence the mLEDs  could be in grid which allows see through, but when the less are illuminated allows adding information. Since the mLEDs cells should work independently, doesn’t need the best resolution. 

Examples. Google glasses, all projection headsets and HUDs etc. you can’t see through the pixel that has information instead you lose the visual data behind it. Like in fighter jets. But like driving past along chain fence, you can see behind it, but if you stop you can see the fence blocking the way in some parts. Eye are constantly making micro movements and the data from your left eye will be combined with your right in your brain so, I guess it is fully transparent, in a sense, even if when off you can see microscopic black lumps in the glass. 

This is all assuming you can make a grid out of mLEDs rather than having them on a film that’s uniform with visual properties. 

Edit:1) reminds me that we all have already two blinds spots. One per eye, that you can only notice when you have uniform paper with a different color spot. And in right place the paper seems uniform without the spot, because brains are weird. 
2) typo mled vs mLED
3) but still, VR headsets are capable of AR just like iPhone AR, but surely they aren’t AR headsets, as you said.