And also potentially locks others out of the technology if they scoop up all the suppliers. Not a terrible strategy if you are Apple.
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Apple to Invest $390 Million in Finisar, US Maker of iPhone X TrueDepth Camera Lasers
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And also potentially locks others out of the technology if they scoop up all the suppliers. Not a terrible strategy if you are Apple.
Good move... Invest in the market sooner, and later on other phone manufacturers might need to buy parts from FINISAR...
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Maybe you should quit trolling?
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Maybe you should quit trolling?
Most certainly will be the iPad next. I think it only makes sense, which Will change the display for the home button being deleted as well. As much as Face ID is about the iPhone, undoubtedly it will be about the iPad as well very soon.
You aint lyin. GT Advance Technologies all over again.
Apple makes investments in partners quite often. They invested $200 million in Corning for glass, $2.7 billion in LG for OLED, $3+ billion in Toshiba’s semiconductor manufacturing for NAND, and now this $390 million in Finisar for VCSEL lasers. All within the last year.
Also, Apple has made other smaller investments, such as the purchase of equipment in supplier facilities, most recently in a RFPCB supplier (after one competing supplier dropped out).
Seems like really smart strategic investments; not sure why it triggered Apple hate in this thread though.
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Not about the story. About the response:
“Why? Go on, invest in China, Vietnam, Korea, Pakistan, Bangladesh..”
I'm aware that we all must understand that Apple needs to modify the next? gen of Face ID to work in different orientations, as it would be an instant fail on the iPad, if you needed to keep turning the iPad around to get it to work.
So let's assume that's coming as it would be stupid if it didn't.
Given that............ Has anyone actually held the iPhone in landscape orientation and done the Face ID set-up, and seen if it accepted the face, and then would unlock it, in landscape ? (Obviously I would not currently work in portrait if you did that)
I'm just interested.
So let's assume that's coming as it would be stupid if it didn't.
Given that............ Has anyone actually held the iPhone in landscape orientation and done the Face ID set-up, and seen if it accepted the face, and then would unlock it, in landscape ? (Obviously I would not currently work in portrait if you did that)
I'm just interested.
Finisar going down? They make much more than Face ID technology. They are a well known supplier of SFP/optics for hundreds of other vendors.
Not sure why you think people mentioning past partner histories equates to "Apple hate."
They're more like cautionary tales.
Wow, $390 million just to keep competitors away! Force Touch in the 6S was training ground for an embedded Touch ID that was supposed to be in the X sans notch, natch. It'll probably appear in the iteration after next to maintain their stance of plausible deniability.
called it: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...ters/technologyNews+(Reuters+Technology+News)
called it: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...ters/technologyNews+(Reuters+Technology+News)
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Doesnt just need to be for touch ID -- they could use it to enhance virtual keyboarding.
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Not only just to wake & unlock a sleeping iMac, Mac Pro, iMac Pro gen2, or MacBook/MacBook Pro yet also for immediately LOCK any of them when you turn your eyes glance, head and get up from your desk. This is a HUGE security dynamic from a corporate I.T. perspective. Waiting 15mins for the OS settings or admin profiles to lock the computer after you've left is STILL a very poor idea.
Completely different situation. Finisar is an established player in optical components. Without this investment, they're still a publicly traded company with diversified revenue streams. This just boosts their VCSEL capabilities that much more and gives Apple some stability with their upcoming supply. They no doubt want to get this into all of their phones in 2018, plus some iPads, and maybe some Macs. That's a huge ramp up in manufacturing for something that had very limited use.
Not to you specifically but can someone shake Mark Gruber of Bloomberg around a bit PLEASE?! EVERY single bloomberg video he's a lead of in technology is based on just about EVERY MacRumors article and thread rested to Apple or competitors featured on this site. It's as if he's not reading the full article to understand it and get goes through the first 2-3 pages of an articles threads for relevant comments and then gets interviewed as if he's done real bloom Berg research!
It's pathetic and insulting to he other and actual real analysts that work hard at Bloomberg. His level of research should not be paid as is highlighted this far.
Grrr rant off
Many companies around the world develop things.
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Whilst one single company may have a new product that's regarded as the best NOW. Humans are very clever apes, and will work out how the "other apes" did it do well, will understand the method, and work out their own versions, some worse, some better, and we shall all move on.
Trying to stop competition from anything is simply a very short term delay for sales today.
Computer CPU's
GPU's
Cars
Rockets
Medial implants
Drugs
Whilst one single company may have a new product that's regarded as the best NOW. Humans are very clever apes, and will work out how the "other apes" did it do well, will understand the method, and work out their own versions, some worse, some better, and we shall all move on.
Trying to stop competition from anything is simply a very short term delay for sales today.