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Apple Shifts iPad 2 Display Orders from LG to Samsung Due to Quality Issues
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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...
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...
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.
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.
Doubt it, from what i've gathered LG is the go-to-guy when it comes to ips-panels, especially in this range. Could be wrong though.
Likely because this thread is discussing an iPad not a Macintosh computer.
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.
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 +.
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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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.
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.
The pundits are totally wrong. It's not Apple, It's Samsung that will start phasing out Apple as their customer.
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.
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? 