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iPhone Production May Face Disruptions Due to OLED Display Chip Shortage
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SOMETHING VERY FISHY IS GOING ON!!! There’s has been A LOT of different types of shortages the past few weeks. It’s very strange just all the sudden? When the 2nd half of 2020 things were stable? What’s going on? Inflation ? Or something worse ?
Wrong, mini LEDs have zones that can be on or off. The number of zones is currently in the thousands for some TVs which isn’t a huge number but it’s increasing as the technology is refined.
People forget this is an Apple Fandom page. Not really for the faint of heart (or maybe even wallet
)Consumers don’t need an ‘annual iPhone release’ every year, if you look at how many options are available now, Apple could easily skip an entire year if they wanted to. What it comes down to is money and capitalization, so they won’t opt for a bi-annual release. So even if this iPhone is delayed, (which isn’t unheard of from Apple) even if an iPhone isn’t released in September, they will push a model out as expected.
It seems like we hear news of a possible delay on a regular basis with the new iPhone release. If the new mini is delayed, that won't bother me. That just means Apple will have to wait a little longer to get my money.
Skipping a year won't happen unless Apple is forced to due to events beyond its control.
@-DMN- isn't wrong. miniLED is backlighting technology. Yes it does have dimmable FALD zones, but those zones can't compare to the per pixel dimming of OLED. miniLED still suffers from localized blooming as well. To get image retention and ghosting on OLED now you'd basically have to be intentionally trying to created it. Mitigation techniques like pixel shifting and variable refresh rate have been employed for a while.
You are right that miniLED will continue to be refined. But it's not like OLED will remain in a static state of development. It's going to be refined as well. They'll both improve.
I would personally pick OLED over mini LED for most applications. I wasn’t saying OLED is bad as much as I was defending the potential behind mini LEDs.
OLED had progressed at a far faster pace than LCD. LCD has going through many different technologies to get where it is and it's taken around 35yrs roughly to do what OLED has done in a handful. Keeping it basic you had crappy monochrome LCDs, finally got around to colour but that was passive matrix so ghosting was so bad you couldn't even keep track of the mouse cursor plus you couldn't have that many colours on screen at once anyway, and then active matrix but still took many years to finally perfect and still isn't perfect to this day. So we're stuck with IPS, VA and TN panels because there is no one perfect LCD technology.
LCD still doesn't have perfect blacks, suffers from backlight bleeding and uneven whites on poorly made panels, slow response times and then theres IPS glow. I'd take OLED any day over LCD.
Honestly it’s almost impossible to predict trends in innovations in different technologies. LCD brings a lot of things to the table that it does a lot better than OLED. There are different applications for each and if apple picked mini LED for their iPads I trust they weighed their options and picked the better one. They don’t tend to cost cut with their Pro tier products.
I’d pick OLED for everything but a computer monitor or TV because both of those applications tend to have a lot of static items on the screen. This might be why they went with LCD on the iPad since it goes along with the “it’s a computer!!1” narrative they’re trying to go with
And here I thought it was because Apple was still trying to get the Product(Red) actually red corrrectly
But if any one can bounce back, Apple finds a way.... usually
Nothing seems to stop this company for selling anything. While stores closes happen, and other business hi hard over various crisis-es, Apple always seems to land on their feet, (..rather than their head)
Nothing seems to stop this company for selling anything. While stores closes happen, and other business hi hard over various crisis-es, Apple always seems to land on their feet, (..rather than their head)
Turn back to LCD Apple as you almost perfected it for mobile and tablets. Your application of OLED suffers from terrible colour shift, is overly warm (to the point that white is now yellow) and has eye straining PWM of the very worst kind.
I pray for the end of OLED in mobile computing devices just for the sake of deep blacks!
I pray for the end of OLED in mobile computing devices just for the sake of deep blacks!
I will grind my 8 for another year and half? Okay fine... but the 2022 iPhone better be good!
Seems like production capacity and supply chain management has taken a nose-dive in the tech manufacturing world. Maybe that Samsung announcing the cancellation of the Note series is the tip of the iceberg. (At least they were honest)