Apple May Crowdsource iPhone Damage Data to Make Future Screens More Resistant to Cracks

[Col4bin]

Seriously? Go make me a lithium ion battery that doesn't die

I know, Apple should invest in a company like GT Advanced Technologies to start producing sapphire glass screens! Errrrrrrr...
[doublepost=1487261234][/doublepost]Too bad that investment in GT Advanced Technologies didn't quite work out as expected.

 

[B4U]

Go ahead and rewrite the laws of physics, we'll wait.

If it is not made by glass?
We just need a material that can be used as a screen that would not crack.

 

[NT1440]

If it is not made by glass?
We just need a material that can be used as a screen that would not crack.

Again, rewrite the laws of physics then. Go ahead and find me another material as workable, RF transparent, can have electrical leads embedded in it (touchscreen), etc.

 

[69650]

It would help if Apple made their own impact resistent iPhone case with front cover.

 

[Fzang]

We just need a material that can be used as a screen that would not crack.

Right. I'm sure there's almost no scientists in the world who's thought of that, and those who have are being silenced by evil interests. Everyone is on the glass bandwagon and Apple is part of the Big Glass consortium, out to screw you over with flimsy glass screens.

 

[toph2toast]

I know, Apple should invest in a company like GT Advanced Technologies to start producing sapphire glass screens! Errrrrrrr...
[doublepost=1487261234][/doublepost]Too bad that investment in GT Advanced Technologies didn't quite work out as expected.

The screens in the Apple Watch (minus the sport) are sapphire but people still crack and break them.

 

[Col4bin]

The screens in the Apple Watch (minus the sport) are sapphire but people still crack and break them.

Go figure. Despite that fact that GT Advanced couldn't produce enough yield to support iPhone market demand, probably another reason why that investment went down the drain. So much for sapphire containing space age properties.

 

[macTW]

As he markets have saturated, Apple and others haven't quite been able to develop the cutting edge features...

But the newest feature? Information. Apple is doing really well on this front, from their AI and machine learning papers published to this.

 

[naeS1Sean]

Maybe just in the areas you happen to care about. I've been amazed by their remarkable advancements in chip design over the last few years.

I agree with chips. But look at Macs as one example. Look how long it took for simple things come to iOS. Whether or not I love them they are still slowwwwwwww.

 

[Neepman]

I can't figure people out. 21 years. Over a dozen laptops, 5 iPhones , 4 iPads and a lots of cables and Power supplies and over 2 million miles of international travel .... and yet I've had not one dropped or damaged laptop, cracked screen or frayed cord. What do you people do to these things?

 

[Murphintosh]

I just became part of the 21% about 45 minutes ago.

 

[B4U]

Again, rewrite the laws of physics then. Go ahead and find me another material as workable, RF transparent, can have electrical leads embedded in it (touchscreen), etc.

We need to think outside the box.
Who decided that a touch screen needs to be the way it is now?
Apple would need to innovate on how to implement the new ideas, not us as consumers.

 

[44267547]

They probably should have considered this area a while ago. Slow as molasses.

And...most of us are not engineers and have no idea what limitations there would have been With design, part suppliers, testing and evaluating. How do you judge something based on something that hasn't been done by any manufacturer before?

 

[NT1440]

We need to think outside the box.
Who decided that a touch screen needs to be the way it is now?
Apple would need to innovate on how to implement the new ideas, not us as consumers.

...And they are (in-cell, piezo stress sensors, 4 channel ambient light sensors), but glass is still clearly the best option for touchscreens available today. No amount of "thinking outside the box" is going to change the past 60 years of material science....

 

[SBlue1]

Hey apple. How bout just making a screen that DOESN'T crack? Hmm?

LOL! Ah... Thank you.