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Apple Reportedly in Talks With Samsung About OLED Displays for Future iPads and MacBooks
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You're completely right. Instead of Apple owing Samsung hundreds of millions of dollars, Samsung should if anything owe Apple a rebate because they sold so many more phones than they agreed upon /s
I do NOT want OLED on a laptop screen. The last thing I want to have to worry about is burn-in on a screen that has mostly static images on it.
So Apple may not pay for these displays, but the consumers will (potential for PWM and $$$ hike)?
Sheesh. Guess I'll stick to my plan of buying new Macs on sale (be they newer models or older, IF, there's no issues with older models).
Buy a mini, pick your own solution
If OLED should appear the same on an Apple laptop as it does on my iPhone X, that will be a laptop I won't be purchasing.
Sad. My 2011 MBA display has been on continuously for 8 years and still looks great. I shudder to think what it would look like if it was OLED.
I can't see the numbers for this years iPhone going to be so large either, since Apple is only adding an extra camera 
According to the tests I have read this year, burn in seems to have been tamed on the latest TVs and laptops. But, I am not sure if that is what you meant longevity.
I've thought about that, but the Mini has bluetooth, WiFi and possible sound issues. Experienced the bluetooth and wifi issues myself at the Apple Store. I wanted a Mini badly, but cannot see spending that kind of money for those issues plus potential T2 kernel panics. Not to mention researching and buying an eGPU too. Shame since I really liked it and the new Ultrafine 23" display.
I am probably going to stick with iMacs as much I'd like to change my set up unless Apple seriously get their stuff together and ease up on the pricing.
really the only discussion they should be having with Sammy is why the F are the OLED screens your making for us giving more people headaches & eyestrain than the screens you use on your Galaxy's
Because they don't want to join the NVIDIA club when Apple decide to go with LG to spite them (and us).
I see you have the correct answer below.
Indeed. And let's not forget that the current LCD on the iPad Pro is really great, Apple could easily continue to use it instead.
Pentile has been Samsung's solution to blue diode exhaustion, but it only looks any good at PPIs of at least 400. Really that sort of pixel density is out of the question for something 12.9-13.3" in size and above, due to the ridiculously high resolution it would need to be to get there. I can only assume other OLED gaming laptops use RGB OLEDs (as many TVs do; though this seems to be an LG specialty). For their televisions, LG suggests they will last 50 years before reducing in brightness by half, though the blue diodes in these are really big compared to what you'd need in a laptop or tablet.
*Gulp!* A sharp pain just ran through my chest at that thought. Stop frightening me like that!
Honestly, I'd rather Apple not put an OLED in a 16" MBP. All that'll do is jack up the price. I no longer see the difference between the screen in my iPhone XS Max and my old iPhone 6+. Don't make me get a damned mortgage just to afford my next laptop
Uh, Micro LEDs don't exist in mass production now - and probably won't for a good while to come - at least not in tablet and bigger sizes.
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You don't nee an OLED iPad to reduce eye strain or blue light. Apple's had two features for a few years now which reduce blue light & eye strain without needing an OLED. They're called "True Tone" and "Night Shift".
Bit different spin to it. Keep same thickness but take the extra room from the thinner display and beef up the frame!
