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Kuo: Apple Cancels Plans to Release iPad Air With OLED Display in 2022, Plans to Stick With LCD Technology
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I don't like the way that the story has been reported, very much sounding as if it is solid fact.
This isn't a declaration from Apple. It's someone who may / may not have gotten hold of confidential information - maybe there's truth in it, but maybe it's just someone who made a declaration as if it was solid fact, and now they're back tracking.
It should be much more openly reported as a rumour.
I do not think it is related, as Apple would eventually bring a mini-LED to iPad Pro 11” anyway. For me the display tech is not as important, as long as we get a good quality screen. Unfortunately, Apple seems to have neglected their iPad screen quality lately. A few examples would be light-bleeding on iPad Pro 10.5” and iPad Air 3 10.5” (probably sharing the same panels), light bleeding at the same spot on iPad Air 4 and, most recently, Apple’s “normal” jelly-scroll effect. I know for a fact that my iPad Air 2 had deeper blacks, crispier whites and no light bleed over 5 years, compared to my iPad Air 4, with blacks looking more like very dark greys and whites tinting towards yellow, also sporting a famous light-bleed of a different intensity on the same spot on two different units. Disappointing, considering Air 2 was also less expensive. This is why I was looking forward to Air getting an OLED, but if Apple figures out a better way of making the screen better, hey, I am all in!
Care to elaborate how or why? Apart from being cheaper to produce? An OLED panel on my iPhone 12 mini is awesome, but I cannot say the same about my Air 4 screen.
So Samsung didn’t allow Apple providing better tech to their customers next year.
This is not written clearly, but given the meticulously chosen timing of each “report” it definitely suggested to the market. Hehehe
This is not written clearly, but given the meticulously chosen timing of each “report” it definitely suggested to the market. Hehehe
You make a long drawn out argument to say something, why not also give us a link to a reputable study to really bolster your point?
Your personal experience may be a valid data point, but dont spend four paragraphs saying "I dont need a study". One line with a link to a real study is much more compelling than you droning on and on.
What disadvantages? Burn-in is overblown. It's a non-issue nowadays as long as you don't leave an image frozen on-screen for hours. And what about the disadvantages of LCD? Crap look and the backlighting is prone to overheating and failing after a while. With just about every LCD TV I've had, the backlight has conked out after a few years. No such problem with OLED.Actually, I'm not missing out. I got the iPad Pro because I prefer mini LED over OLED. Same with TV - really don't want OLED on a TV either. In fact, I feel that you are missing out
OLED makes sense for a phone or watch (even though I opted for LCD there too). My only OLED device is actually the watch. Everything else in my home is LCD and I'm very happy about that. Sure, OLED looks great but the disadvantages are not worth the true blacks benefit. LCD all the way
Ok, you make a good point about how people over-dramatize the downsides of oled, but then proceed to way over-dramatize the disadvantages of lcd/led.
Not a good look, lol.
Fair points. I think its certainly possible but also know its unlikely that Apple would splinter the iPad OS just for Pro models. I’d just like to completely replace a laptop with an iPad but can’t do that because the OS is still so limited. I also realize that Apple wants me to buy both a Mac and an iPad. Maybe one day…..
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This is what I was saying in my post above. I know there is definitely an interest in a version of Final Cut Pro for iPadOS amongst the creator crowd, especially since M1 came to iPad Pro. If Apple develops and launches that product it’s going to run differently from machine to machine as has always been the case in the software/hardware relationship. Of course a 1TB iPad Pro with M1 and 16GB of RAM is going to perform far better than the OG iPad Pro.
your phone and house lights have been using PWM for years (long before any of your phones had OLED screens.)
Pulse-width modulation - Wikipedia
consider the idea that you might get a headache from looking at a screen for extremely long periods of time, much like if I were to get a headache from staring at my Hue light (at, say, 20% so I don’t go blind) for just a few minutes. does that parallel make sense?
I do have quite vivid memories of when I was a child and all I had to play video games on (poor me 😔) was a CRT tv/monitor, playing good ol’ N64/Windows 2000 games respectively. sh— got painful after a while!
(don’t ask why my dad had 2000 on our family computer, he was a tech nerd weirdo like that 🤷♂️)
Gimme a break. Current good quality LED screens are no way as bad as you tried to describe.
Yes because apple never had any "jelly scroll issues" with their screens they use now in ipads (which shocker, aren't OLED) https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/202...from-uneven-jelly-scrolling-in-portrait-mode/
No they aren’t. They are interested in customers, because that’s where the money comes from.