There's a few factors to look at here, before trying to draw any conclusions.
Firstly, OLEDs are expensive (no matter what the theory) - $2499 at Amazon for an 11" Sony television. Apple doesn't even make a screen that small (rumoured netbooks aside) and they certainly don't pay that price for a monitor, not even the 30". Smaller OLEDs are much cheaper, so iPhone/iPod Touch devices might appear in the next 12 months, but you can forget even a 10" OLED netbook in the foreseeable future.
Secondly, Apple hasn't made the transition to LED monitors yet. That technology is not widespread in the (Windows) computer world and nowhere cheap enough for Apple's preferred margin to be applied.
Thirdly, Apple's product development time is said to be 2 years. They put a team on "gutting and redesigning" the Mac Mini May last year and we still haven't seen the results of that yet, so 2 years seems to be correct.
So in the next year we can expect OLED to appear in maybe small touch devices, not a netbook.
LED displays might make it to iMac, more than 12 months away. They just seem to be too expensive at the moment. See how common they become in the wider computer community in the next 12 months.
With the 30", Apple's in a sky's-the-limit situation, selling mostly/initially to professionals who will pay whatever it costs to get a better monitor. Even so, a LED will be $5000 and OLED is out of the question.
Except small Touch devices, OLED looks to be 2 years away, which is consistent with Apple's product cycle - buy OLED now, release the product in 2 years when the price of the displays has fallen to a point it can be included in iMacs, say.
That leaves MacBooks - which actually have made the transition to LED, but the prices of >11" OLED displays frankly put them nearly 2 years away in MacBooks, maybe a high end option (15", 17") in built to order, but not for a year or more.
And lastly, and most disturbingly, OLED television technology has remained pretty much unchanged in nearly 2 years, compared with LCD which has almost squeezed out plasma (not for technical superiority, but on price alone). LED televisions are nowhere near common and OLED televisions are still a curiosity, not showing any signs of mass production (you can't count an 11", I'm sorry). And I haven't even canvassed life span and reliability, but that's probably why the technology seems to have stood still - working out the bugs. Sony did jump very early on OLED and increased expectations about OLED's arrival in the marketplace.
I'm not holding my breath. There was a lot of disappointment in the iMac/Mini releases this year. Apple isn't moving ahead anywhere near as fast as the fans would like it to.
Firstly, OLEDs are expensive (no matter what the theory) - $2499 at Amazon for an 11" Sony television. Apple doesn't even make a screen that small (rumoured netbooks aside) and they certainly don't pay that price for a monitor, not even the 30". Smaller OLEDs are much cheaper, so iPhone/iPod Touch devices might appear in the next 12 months, but you can forget even a 10" OLED netbook in the foreseeable future.
Secondly, Apple hasn't made the transition to LED monitors yet. That technology is not widespread in the (Windows) computer world and nowhere cheap enough for Apple's preferred margin to be applied.
Thirdly, Apple's product development time is said to be 2 years. They put a team on "gutting and redesigning" the Mac Mini May last year and we still haven't seen the results of that yet, so 2 years seems to be correct.
So in the next year we can expect OLED to appear in maybe small touch devices, not a netbook.
LED displays might make it to iMac, more than 12 months away. They just seem to be too expensive at the moment. See how common they become in the wider computer community in the next 12 months.
With the 30", Apple's in a sky's-the-limit situation, selling mostly/initially to professionals who will pay whatever it costs to get a better monitor. Even so, a LED will be $5000 and OLED is out of the question.
Except small Touch devices, OLED looks to be 2 years away, which is consistent with Apple's product cycle - buy OLED now, release the product in 2 years when the price of the displays has fallen to a point it can be included in iMacs, say.
That leaves MacBooks - which actually have made the transition to LED, but the prices of >11" OLED displays frankly put them nearly 2 years away in MacBooks, maybe a high end option (15", 17") in built to order, but not for a year or more.
And lastly, and most disturbingly, OLED television technology has remained pretty much unchanged in nearly 2 years, compared with LCD which has almost squeezed out plasma (not for technical superiority, but on price alone). LED televisions are nowhere near common and OLED televisions are still a curiosity, not showing any signs of mass production (you can't count an 11", I'm sorry). And I haven't even canvassed life span and reliability, but that's probably why the technology seems to have stood still - working out the bugs. Sony did jump very early on OLED and increased expectations about OLED's arrival in the marketplace.
I'm not holding my breath. There was a lot of disappointment in the iMac/Mini releases this year. Apple isn't moving ahead anywhere near as fast as the fans would like it to.
