Apple’s New Taiwanese Lab May Focus on OLED and Micro-LED Display Technology

[err404]

Your guess, which you could have "confirmed".... with Wiki, is wrong.

The wiki actually makes micro LED and OLED sound very similar. They are both a very fine array of discreet LEDs and therefore share the same main benefit over LCD in that power is only consumed by active sub pixels.
In implementation the big difference is in projected power efficiency, durability and brightness (all areas that OLED is also rapidly improving). It is reasonable for consumers to view it as a next gen refinement on the idea of OLED using a new process for the formation of the actual LED.
While you have a point that folks in the industry will view these as vastly different technologies, I would surprised if the end result in 2018 is visually much different from OLED (first gen Micro LED vs mature OLED). That is not to say that micro LED doesn't have headroom in the tech to outpace OLED over time.

 

[Max(IT)]

Your company must be very productive using a device with a 1-3 second delay when entering a character on the keyboard. Wish I could work there... For the record: That was sarcasm.
In all fairness, I am using an iPad 2 not a MINI, so the experience may be different.



...and scientology is on the up-and-up. Get a grip.



The original battery still holds a charge, not a long one, but it does hold one.

Anyway, I digress: I think you are proving my point. Apple releases FULL OS updates, instead of security patches, that fix security issues. These OS "updates" slows down the device to where it becomes unusable (remember the definition of unusable - in fact I linked to it, in an earlier post). Most companies simply stop supporting older hardware after a certain amount of time - and that is preferable to crippling a device.



I wonder how many of those devices you mention, were sold, compared to the iPhone. I'm guessing there's not much incentive to keep them up to date.

I think you are proving my point. Apple releases FULL OS updates, instead of security patches, that fix security issues. These OS "updates" slows down the device to where it becomes unusable (remember the definition of unusable - in fact I linked to it, in an earlier post). Most companies simply stop supporting older hardware after a certain amount of time - and that is preferable to crippling a device.

BTW, are your people skills, at work, as good as they are here in this forum? Who starts out a post with the words "thats totally BS"?

A few facts: The resolution on the iPad 2 is double that of the iPad mini, and the graphics engine is different (and improved IIRC). It makes sense that your mini might run faster than my iPad 2. Or it could be that you just don't believe that anything other than your experience is correct...

Lol, you spoke about "facts" you don't even know: iPad 2 and Mini use the same GPU and share the same resolution.....

Most companies just stop supporting older hardware the day it reach the market, so I'm glad Apple still supports ancient hardware like iPad 2.

 

[thermodynamic]

Baiting aside (e.g. "Will company x do this?" or "Company x may be working on something", which is as insulting as the bogus "leaked" articles of future products that are obvious marketing advertisements), that was an interesting read. (It's a media trend in general, if people knew that the news didn't used to be so loaded or with the emotionally manipulative clickbaiting-formatted headlines...)

 

[d656]

That's why it's perfect for Android phones - - your screen becomes unreadable at the same time as your system updates run out in 18 months.

Sure.....

 

[djlythium]

"Micro-LED displays eliminate the need for backlighting unlike traditional LCDs."

Read: transparent screens. The biggest issue with creating a transparent screen is backlighting, but if this requirement is unnecessary for micro-LED screens...