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LG Can't Meet Apple's Demand for iPhone OLED Displays

posted by janrinok on Friday April 20 2018, @09:19PM   
from the boot-on-the-other-foot dept.

takyon writes:

LG Display reportedly can't meet Apple's demand for OLED screens due to manufacturing issues. This means that Apple will once again be reliant on its primary supplier and smartphone rival, Samsung:

Analysts have been warning for months that Apple is in "urgent" need of finding another iPhone OLED supplier besides Samsung. Apple currently uses Samsung's OLED displays for the company's iPhone X model. The reliance on a single supplier means Samsung controls pricing on the displays that Apple is buying — and there's no other alternative at the moment.

Also at WSJ and MacRumors.

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Apple Building its Own MicroLED Displays for Eventual Use in Apple Watch and Other Products

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• simple summary... simple summary... (Score: 4, Insightful) by stretch611 on Saturday April 21 2018, @01:48AM (2 children)

  by stretch611 (6199) on Saturday April 21 2018, @01:48AM (#669888)

  Fuck Apple.

  They get the cheapest contract labor they can find and care less about the workers.
  Then they sell the phone for $1000.

  They use underhanded tricks and expensive lawyers to stop people's ability to repair their own phones (or let 3rd parties repair them) ( https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/04/17/0419229 [soylentnews.org] )
  They sued the competition on design patents for a rectangle with rounded corners. ( http://fortune.com/2015/08/19/apple-patents-rounded-corners/ [fortune.com] )
  They colluded with book publishers in order to keep the price of ebooks high. ( http://fortune.com/2015/06/30/apple-court-books/ [fortune.com] )
  They force all developers into their own store where they can deny any program for any reason and take a cut of all sales. (Google does this with android, but it allows for an easy way around the app store.)

  We know that they will just increase the cost to consumers anyway.

  So once again, I say, FUCK APPLE

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• Re:simple summary... Re:simple summary... (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Saturday April 21 2018, @08:33AM (1 child)

  by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Saturday April 21 2018, @08:33AM (#670012) Homepage

  > They get the cheapest contract labor they can find and care less about the workers.
  
  Care less than whom?

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  • Re:simple summary... (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 22 2018, @04:43AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 22 2018, @04:43AM (#670243)

    Everyone. :)

    Surprisingly, what is normally a grammatical error actually works in that statement.

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