Apple has to at some point, just push more money from their bank accounts into helping get new tech to the market. It's cool, we get it, they can tout a retina samsung or lg screen, and due to their marketing machine and the hipster fans, appropriate it as some kind of their technological advance.
But now that samsung has showed them the finder, and rightly so after apple's litigation machine went after them, all we have are 3 year old lg panels in the new imacs, and lg panels with rampant image retention problems on the retina macbook pro (actually there's probably not a single lg panel without image retention), to which of course apple has replied that it's "natural" for lcd displays... as if somehow all of a sudden lcds became plasma screens or crt's...but in apple's world they did apparently as a less than perfect way to avoid another -gate, the retention-gate...
With the money they got they can bail out 10 sharps, not one, they should have already done so then, I don't see why they haven't. It's all good and well to squeeze out your suppliers because you make hip products and most of the people who actually design and manufacture and bring new technologies to market are in such a tight spot right now financially.
I intensely dislike how they wait for others to come up with the tech, and spend gazillions of dollars into developing it and possible go under in the process, and if they find a tech that suits them later on, shamelessly present it as some kind of their own achievement. There are quite a few of very interesting, quite revolutionary display technologies floundering due to lack of money e-ink (not doing that badly actually but struggling along), mirasol, pixel qi...you know how much money apple has invested in any of them, ZERO. So next time they bring out a new ipad or iphone with a great screen, and they start touting their innovation, some would be right to tell them, wait a second, you didn't do **** to develop what you are now repackaging and selling...
Meanwhile it's now a well known fact that apple's legal department has a bigger budget than their r and d department, they are spending more money on lawyers than on the actual product development. The whole moto we are into great products and that's what we focus upon seems to have gone down the drain, at least in terms of how much money they invest in actual research and development.