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Apple Shifts iPad 2 Display Orders from LG to Samsung Due to Quality Issues

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i'm all for it

" i buy expensive suits. they just look cheap on me..." - warren buffett
 
*LTD* said:
This.

Funny that we have to keep repeating this, isn't it?

Yes, we talk a lot about the hypotheticals, which is enjoyable, but some folks actually think Samsung would somehow exact "revenge" on Apple by messing with supply, deadlines, etc. It just isn't how things work in the real world.
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Thats how Apple works though.
 
iPad 2 Display: LG or Samsung

Anyone know how one would find out if their iPad 2 LCD Display is from LG or Samsung?

If not, Can we figure it out via a timeframe since most Apple serial's number due have a time of manufactured hidden within them... I know I ordered mine in early March, and it took about 3 weeks for me to have it on my doorstep, so I do not know if they were doing LG & Samsung displays(& which one I have) at the time or not...
 
840quadra said:
It is also likely that the division / department responsible for making the Samsung tablets is totally separate from the group making the panels themselves.
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It gets even more complicated. The mobile displays are made by a company named SMD(Samsung Mobile Display) which is a joint venture owned by Samsung SDI and Samsung Electronics. SDI and Electronics are traded separately on the stock market so they are separate entities although both clearly parts of the Samsung empire. Samsung's phones are made by the mobile division under Samsung Electronics and chips are supplied by the LSI division, and these two divisions are known run rather separately.
 
I thought we already had a story about poorer quality from LG a few months ago.


AppleFan1984 said:
In a single quarter perhaps, but over the long term finished products generally have much higher margins than components, which is why so many components makers also produce consumer products.
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Makes little difference when the finished products have market lifespans of a quarter. Which is why so many CE products are junk. And so many companies are having financial issues.
 
So the quality on both are equal until you drop them?
And LG doesn't hold up as well as Samsung?

Guess that LG/Samsung argument on the Airs could be re-fueled again by this.
 
nwcs said:
Makes perfect sense. Samsung's LCD manufacturing is a separate entity from the corporate parent. And it's totally normal for companies suing each other to still work together. It'd be petty and amateurish to do otherwise. And neither company got to their current size by acting stupid.
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It's BS. Samsung's LCD manufacturing is part of Samsung Electronics as is their mobile unit. It's just as separate as Apple's iPhone unit is separate from their corporate parent. Do not confuse this with Samsung car manufacturing, ship building etc. Those are indeed not part of Samsung electronics.
 
lilo777 said:
It's BS. Samsung's LCD manufacturing is part of Samsung Electronics as is their mobile unit.
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Before calling BS, do your own research so that you aren't BSing yourself. I've explained it above that the mobile LCD manufacturing is indeed done by a company that's not technically a part of Samsung Electronics. But I see that some people still gave you +.


lilo777 said:
It's just as separate as Apple's iPhone unit is separate from their corporate parent
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Not really because Samsung Electronic's mobile division and LSI division deal with completely different types of customers, and they both run as profit centers. And again, the company that makes the displays is not part of Samsung Eletronics, SMD is run as a separate entity.
 
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840quadra said:
Interesting how a company that it is currently suing, is also the savior for the product for which they are suing to protect.
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Politics: Samsung clearly could stop creating displays for Apple, on the other hand Apple is doing a gentlemen agreement:

"Do not copy our products but we are not going to kill you, we know is the fault of one of your departments, not the entire company".

You do not know when Apple may need or needed from Samsung. At the end, Apple is where it is as well because of the collaboration with their partners.
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Business as usual then... Interesting to follow.
 
I wish people would read this story and FINALLY get what I and others have been trying to say about Apple and Samsung's relationship. They are two large companies that have multiple disputes and multiple agreements. They both need each other, but they will also sue if they feel their intellectual property is being infringed upon.

I'm so tired of reading articles from tech pundits about how Apple will probably start phasing out Samsung for production in the near future.

Here is direct proof that they don't work like that.
 
Vertigo50 said:
I wish people would read this story and FINALLY get what I and others have been trying to say about Apple and Samsung's relationship. They are two large companies that have multiple disputes and multiple agreements. They both need each other, but they will also sue if they feel their intellectual property is being infringed upon.

I'm so tired of reading articles from tech pundits about how Apple will probably start phasing out Samsung for production in the near future.

Here is direct proof that they don't work like that.
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The pundits are totally wrong. It's not Apple, It's Samsung that will start phasing out Apple as their customer.
 
Mattie Num Nums said:
I love how all the Mac-Zealots ignore these types of threads.
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There's nothing to ignore. Samsung the Supplier is still . . . a supplier. And given the insane amount of demand for Apple's products, they stand to cash in.

Whoever those Mac Zealots are, they're absolutely correct, because Apple seems to be making the right moves these days. Even the highly controversial ones pan out in their favour. Most Mac Zealotry these days is simply based on material fact: Apple's performance and consumers' response to it. It's the easiest argument to make because it just makes sense.

You might want to start taking it seriously. Playing the contrarian can only go for so long before you break with reality completely.
 
Mattie Num Nums said:
I love how all the Mac-Zealots ignore these types of threads.
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*LTD* said:
There's nothing to ignore. Samsung the Supplier is still . . . a supplier. And given the insane amount of demand for Apple's products, they stand to cash in.
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Indeed, and there's that fact that the displays come from Samsung Mobile Display whereas Apple sued Samsung Electronics. I just love how all the Mac/Apple/Steve Jobs/Apple fan haters will instantly spit out blatantly gross and juvenile religious and sexual imageries to describe people.
 
One more note to add this is that if Samsung really wanted to have power over Apple, there's one component made by Samsung that doesn't have other substitute suppliers. That is the AMOLED display except Apple doesn't use it. Are people still wondering why Apple is not using AMOLED? 😉
 
fertilized-egg said:
Indeed, and there's that fact that the displays come from Samsung Mobile Display whereas Apple sued Samsung Electronics. I just love how all the Mac/Apple/Steve Jobs/Apple fan haters will instantly spit out blatantly gross and juvenile religious and sexual imageries to describe people.
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Who are all owned by? Samsung thats right!
 
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