Because ? After researching aluminum, stainless, molybdene, titanium, tin-alloys, self-repairing nano materials, filing thousands and thousands of patents on meroplasts, ceramics and other materials and tanking billions and billions into sapphire factories, it is now time to go back to the stone/glass age ?
No they don't use Corning across the board. They also use DragonTail from Asahi Glass. But where has Apple misled customers? Afaik, Apple has never said they exclusively use Corning; Gorilla Glass or otherwise. Others have incorrectly made that assumption. That can't be attributed to Apple. There are dozens of companies manufacturing the same interchangeable components for Apple products. Do you also want to know about all the other parts differences? If so, to what end?
You were going somewhere and making an interesting point until you got to the bolded portion. Hyperbole does your point no favors at all. The fact that Apple didn't even spend $1B on GT Advance sort of makes your "tanking bilions and billions into sapphire factories" a bit disingenuous. BTW, factories implies multiple facilities instead of, ya know, the one factory in Mesa, AZ.
No.
The History of Corning Innovation https://www.corning.com/worldwide/e...vation/the-history-of-corning-innovation.html
They have them in both, My Step-Mother's dad worked for corning in NY and moved to Harrodsburg back in the 70's.
You're trying to tell me that Gorilla Glass™ doesn't use actual gorillas? False advertising, if you ask me.
Never said they make sapphire. I said I want better glass. I know how sapphire works. There have been rumors in the past about sapphire laminated gorilla glass, along with newer versions of gorilla glass that have properties similar to sapphire being very scratch resistant and yet very strong.
Hyperbole and coloring facts seems to be the current popular modus operandi when rendering opinions on the cyber. Admittedly, it does make pushing a narrative a lot easier. My opinion is if the narrative needs that type of help, it's probably not worth pushing in the first place. I didn't want to say the poster was just lying because I've been told the cyber is hard. Sometimes we need help navigating it.
Apologies for my mistake. I was confused by your post regarding sapphire in a thread about Corning. I didn't get correlation.
It's ok. I wonder though, does Apple still get all of their sapphire from what GT made, since Apple Watch displays and home buttons are so small? You'd think at some point they'd need a new partner. I did a quick Google search and everything just talked about GT so IDK if they've ever found someone new to grow the crystals. Could this investment could be towards something like that?
I have an iPhone 5 with no protection and never broke the glass. I see people who destroys their phones and they are actually people with anxiety disorders and kind of... shallow and no brain. And their iPhones is not the only thing is a disaster so there is a pattern.
Certainly. Not to mention that Apple gets to announce this instead of an unsubstantiated rumor hinting at them buying 100 million units.
You may be right.
There is this variety of investments in different directions that make it hard to follow any route or strategy.
This.
Never thought of it that way... I thought it was the Gorillas were making the glass, like the glue...
It's just a hypothetical used to emphasize my idea that Apple could be using Corning as a type of contract R&D for something they'd like to explore. Secondly, it doesn't require Corning to think the idea is good, bad, or ugly. It only requires Apple to say could you look into this for us. We'll pay for your time and effort.
