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Apple's OLED Suppliers Won't Be Able to Meet Demand for 2017 iPhone

Yup, first: the 2017 (10th ear ann.) model will be great, glass body, oled display, wireless charging according any many more according to analists.
As we start getting closer: sorry, no oled display. Next month: no wireless charging etc. At the end: the 2017 model will have the same form factor with an upgraded CPU.
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princigalli said:
Iphone 7 is a boring update. If you can't get the 7 get the 6. There are no real differences.
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Thats no true. From the outside perhaps, but the inside really changed.....and that were its really about.
"Don't judge a book by its cover" unless you are a fashion geek (instead of a tech nerd)
 
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I have an idea that will solve your constraints... How about an iPhone 4" with OLED? Smaller, higher yield, neglected userbase...
 
I read somewhere that it's always been Jony Ive's want to create an iPhone that is a single glass surface. The rumoured iPhone 8 seems like it could be that phone and if all the rumours come true, we could be looking at a design masterpiece next year. I would hate for it not to get the final touch of an OLED display to round it all off.

I think I saw something where Jony discussed how an LCD display wasn't great from a design perspective as the uniform backlight made it so you could see the display border.

I also remember a rumour that Apple preferred MicroLED display technology so hopefully either that or OLED make it to next years phones.
 
dilbert99 said:
I know the density of pixels is different from OLED TVs to OLED Phones, but think how many phones you would get out of one 75" screen.

Apple could always put the OLED screen on the 4.7" model thus supporting more phones than the larger one.
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A TV is quite a bit inferior to a phone display. Looking at Apple's track record, they want the best.
 
Johnny907 said:
Neither does Apple, apparently. If they did they'd loan their suppliers some of their excess cash to increase their facilities.
Ya know, unless this whole shortage at launch thing actually sells more product than their actual advertising does.
Oh, wait...
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It's not that simple. It's possible that they're getting low yields.

It's funny how people think they know more than Apple.
 
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truthertech said:
I think you mean "Apple is going to screw up the iPhone 8 launch too." But even if grammatically correct, your comment makes no sense. It isn't screwing up a launch when you make a phone so wonderful that people the world over buy them as fast as you can make them. Yes, despite a few MR trolls insistence that the iPhone 7 would be a flop because it lacked a 3.5mm headphone jack, the current estimates are that almost a quarter of a billion, yes that's the "big B" folks, people around the world will buy it in the next twelve months or so, continuing the record as the world's most successful consumer product ever. The one that is capturing almost all of the entire cell phone industry's profits. Yes, what a screwed up launch.
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"Apple are" is grammatically correct in the UK. In the UK proper names of music groups and businesses and so forth are considered to be representing a plurality despite the name taking a singular form.


Getting back to the subject of the displays, I wonder why so many people consider OLED to be the ultimate display. I have a Samsung S7 Edge and an HTC 10. Both have the same resolution. They are both attractive displays. The Samsung's is more eye catching initially, but after spending a LOT of hours looking at both, I've come to prefer the HTC's LCD. It's very even toned and has good colors and no yellow tinge or pink hue. I get less eye strain on an LCD vs an OLED screen for some reason. Sometimes staring at my Samsung display makes me feel like I'm staring at an industrial fluorescent light tube. Both phones get about the same battery life. I suppose I get a bit more on my Samsung since I customized it to run dark mode on every widget and all trays and the home screen. But not enough to throw a party over.

Apple has done an amazing thing with its new true tone LCD. I sometimes get a little bit envious of you guys who went with the iPhone 7Plus. That true tone display is wonderful with colors. I just think it's unfortunate they didn't increase the resolution on the smaller iPhone and make it a bit thicker to fit in a larger battery to keep it on a par with the Plus.
 
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Starfyre said:
"While Apple and Samsung have an exclusive OLED deal for 2017, it doesn't guarantee that the company will be able to meet Apple's demand. For example, Samsung's OLED supplies have already been constrained due to its own smartphones, like the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge."

So in other words, Samsung is trying to make up for the setback of its own smartphones by crying "we can't meet Apple wants because we have our own phones to tend to".
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Well, Samsung isn't in charity business. Samsung has been making and using mobile OLED displays for their own smartphones for years. In fact, Samsung has been the only (volume) manufacturer and (volume) consumer of mobile OLED display and will be for some foreseeable time -- I bet it would take at least another 4-5 years for competitors to catch up.

Now, explain to me why Samsung has to risk spending billions to expand their production just for a petulant competitor like Apple?
 
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MrX8503 said:
A TV is quite a bit inferior to a phone display. Looking at Apple's track record, they want the best.
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they don't want the best. they want to tell you what the best is (probably with some stupid video of shiny twirling closeups of gimmicky gizmos while having johnny boy tell you how groundbreaking it is), then sell you that for about 5 times the price of what it should be.
 
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MentalFloss said:
Actually, it would be quite surprising to me, seeing how Samsung has rather strict firewalls between their business units. Samsung prioritizing their own phones would be a major shift in their internal culture and would basically jeopardize their business as a supplier for other manufacturers.
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They've been doing this with OLED for years now.
When they supply other companies, they've never given out the creme de la creme.
This would probably change for Apple but currently they are keeping their top end displays for their own production.
 
benjitek said:
The next iPhone will suck because it doesn't have a headphone jack.
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Hey, I'm sure he has a stuffed-up nose due to winter ailments and can't pronounce the "a" properly. Give the poor guy a break, will ya? :p

As for the whiners about the headphone jack, I agree with you completely. Apple continues to sell models with that, so it's a complete non-issue, not to mention an adapter/extension that can stay connected to your headphones at all times.

As for touching a Samsung display on my iPhone? Yuck, I cringe at that thought... I hope more manufacturers come into the fold.
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Rafterman said:
iPhones. iPads. Macbook Pros. Monitors. Ear buds. The era of "buy it now" is over and never coming back. Its the new era of preorder and wait.
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Yah, Tim Cook was brought on for his logistics genius. Seems that his role as CEO has led to Apple's current woes in more ways than one.
 
manhattanboy said:
Hence why Jobs had no problem declaring a war on Google and Android even if it caused apple to go broke.
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If you think Jobs did that out of spite and thinking Apple would suffer from it then you're not understanding what Jobs was all about. That was part of an "us vs them" marketing strategy he used several times throughout his career. If you read the average fanboy thread you'll see it was rather effective.
 
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MentalFloss said:
Actually, it would be quite surprising to me, seeing how Samsung has rather strict firewalls between their business units. Samsung prioritizing their own phones would be a major shift in their internal culture and would basically jeopardize their business as a supplier for other manufacturers.
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My understanding is that they have always done this.
 
SoN1NjA said:
How do you go from COO to CEO, and now say we can't meet demand
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By manufacturing 800K+ iPhones per day, every day. And not having multiple vendors capable of supplying the demands of manufacturing a specialized high performance non-commodity IP-protected component.

Personally, I'd stick with their latest LCD which is highly rated by DisplayMate.
 
Well, considering the whole world will be buying this phone, more so the whingers who didn't like the iPhone 7, apple didn't see anything this year. They better have enough stock for the iPhone 8
 
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