I would guess it depends on what "Apple-designed" currently means for displays. Does Apple actively research, develop, and own the IP for parts right down to the chemistry of the emissive layers, or do they largely just specify that they want a certain screen size, spec, and pixel layout, and leave the rest up to Samsung/LG/BOE? My guess is that it's currently the latter, and Apple is trying to move towards the former with micro LED. (And if they succeed, holy cow...)
Apple, because when you look at it from the negotiations point of view, Apple will be predominantly stronger negotiating prices with manufacturers as it is their technology. Better margins and a lot cheaper than using the displays they are using now. Apple’s customers will see a price hike nonetheless.
Really only one decade. The A4 in the iPhone 4 (2010) was their first inhouse design.
Why not? Just curious to understand.
That a faithful rendering of human visual perception seems one of their goals, in-house display design seems essential.How is burn-in "not as much of an issue" now? What happened? They came up with random crap to burn your display *equally* among all pixels, that's all that happened. OLED is inherently bad, the tech has existed for many decades now, so it's unreasonable to expect this issue to just disappear.
Oh for sure it was decades ago. My SE/30 which I no longer have was bought in 1990!! Apple was a very different company then. I was just indicating that it is not a brand new thing if Apple were to start manufacturing as they once did. Yes, not in the same scale and not for the same kinds of things. Even my SE/30's built-in internal floppy drive was a Sony make. And, all of Apple's printers used engines from different companies like Canon. I'm trying to recall whose engine they used for the LaserWriter LS (one of the printers I had back in the 90s) and I can't recall; definitely wasn't Canon as I think they only used Canon for inkjets.
Ah yes...memories! I forgot about that detail but that is slowly coming back. I recall historical narratives about how Steve was so enamored by Sony and its manufacturing practices that that was a company that Steve was hoping Apple would imitate. Good times! ;-)
Well, I do have an opinion but it's more generally about the American narrative of pushing things towards "Made In America" (including tax incentives for "made in America") and also what that reveals about a still yet very narrow viewpoint on how to live in a global community when we all need to have broader visions beyond nationalism to work with issues that are global, namely, climate change. I find it quite remarkable that we are still so stuck in to nation-states and that struggle to be more broad has so much friction in its birthing.
But, that thought isn't specifically related to the general conversation here.
That is so true! Thinking back to like the 90s and 2000s, I do recall often finding Sony products quite beautifully designed and high quality. In the past 2 decades, I cannot recall ever thinking about Sony! Once a giant in consumer electronics (at least for the general market), it seems like they have vanished.
I get what you’re saying but you have to take things into consideration like China who threatens the entire world supply chain. So not being dependent on another country is just smart. Additionally America is one of the largest consumers of electronics so if you want to fight things like global warming it makes far more sense to produce things locally than ship it across the worldWell, I do have an opinion but it's more generally about the American narrative of pushing things towards "Made In America" (including tax incentives for "made in America") and also what that reveals about a still yet very narrow viewpoint on how to live in a global community when we all need to have broader visions beyond nationalism to work with issues that are global, namely, climate change. I find it quite remarkable that we are still so stuck in to nation-states and that struggle to be more broad has so much friction in its birthing.
But, that thought isn't specifically related to the general conversation here.
Apple does reduce the prices of products all the time. If there is no inflation-adjustment in prices, that is a price cut. Apple might not "reduce" the price but this could allow Apple to not raise prices and eat the inflation rather than consumers eating the inflation.
