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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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Why? That's a lot of necessary overhead. What happens if they build a display factory and then some other company comes out with a better display technology? Then they have an inferior product and an ongoing cost to deal with. It's much easier to contract the best tech and switch vendors if necessary than to have to invest in R&D to stay competitive with those same vendors.
It just now dawned on you? Lol. Steve Jobs was brilliant as was iPhone and App Store. From there we’ve been nothing more than iTunes accounts with cc one click away. Tim Cook took that ball and ran with it.
Can you cite one “other” example of a major company where profits come before customers and the product(s) being sold are purely elective?
Can’t say I’m interested in iPad Air. If I’m going beyond entry level then I’ll eye the pros. It’s not hard to find good deals. I was always skeptical why oled in mid tier and mini led in pro. Here the analyst is months later asking same thing. I know for certain I wouldn’t eye any pros if iPad Air got oled. That can’t be what apple wants.
I do know I’m not interested in buying any new iPads in future without either tech. It remains to be seen even then if the screen will be any enticement. I may be done with iPads altogether. My kids don’t want iPads anymore. Beyond using one as a reader I don’t have a use for them.
I still say being able to boot camp macOS on an iPad Pro would matter most. Might even have a desire to buy one. I still find most I talk to have never used a mac before or want to. This is a no brainer to leverage iPads to introduce more to macOS.
Mini-Leds are better than the best OLEDs. Go walk into an apple store and look at an iPhone pro Max vs and iPad Pro 13. iPad pro will beat out the OLED in 8/10 scenarios. HDR on the iPad pro is perhaps the best I've seen on any screen period.
More probably Samsung couldn't meet Apple quality in the quantity for the right price...that would be my guess.
As the owner of a Galaxy Tab S6 with Super AMOLED display I suggest not setting your sights so low.
As the owner of a Galaxy Tab S6 with Super AMOLED display I suggest not setting your sights so low.
iPhone X and up have entered the chat. haha
at this point both are kinda at this point a waiting game until micro-LED for Apple’s long term plans I suspect
You do understand we're 5+ yrs away from microled? First they gotta make it small enough to use on regular size TV. Next they gotta bring cost down. Too far away at this point.
Some people expectations are simply insane. Like, there is no way to even try. How the hell is apple going to invent a new way of creating oled? They can't steal patents. U think Samsung is going to give their process away for free? U do know most of the stuff in an iPhone belongs to other companies?
Says the guy using an oled iPhone... Apple rave about their display up n down during every keynote. Hahaha n now u say it is crap?
Or Apple was not able to meet the right price for the quantity and quality it wanted. It’s called private negotiations.
Heck, maybe it never, ever took place. Heheh.
Either way it does not concern the general population … even shareholders.
More probably it never, ever took place. Maybe mentioned but not taken seriously. Heheh.
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Halos are part of the game, and I knew it. What I'm talking about is that, in a bright environment the mini-led does not show any wow effect in comparison to a good classic LCD. And I'm annoyed from the fact that if you want to appreciate a netflix or prime video content you have to set brightness to its max.
So a rumor based on a rumor. Unless this is actually written in print by Apple it’s meaningless.
Apple has canceled its plans to release an updated iPad Air with an OLED display next year due to concerns around quality and costs, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said today in an investor note obtained by MacRumors.
In March, Kuo reported that Apple had an iPad Air with an OLED display in the pipeline for next year. Today, Kuo has revised his prediction, saying that will not be the case since Apple has canceled those plans due to costs and performance not meeting the company's expectations.
Kuo had previously stated that the 11-inch iPad Pro would be receiving a mini-LED display next year, and Kuo today doubled down on that claim by saying it will be the "focus of [the] iPad line in 2022." Currently, only the 12.9-inch iPad Pro includes the newer mini-LED technology. One reason Kuo states that Apple had canceled its OLED iPad Air is that it may have been detrimental to the sales of the forthcoming 11-inch iPad Pro with a mini-LED display.
While Apple plans to stick with an LCD display for the iPad Air, Kuo says the company continues to research and develop newer display technologies for the iPad line. A report last week suggested that Apple and Samsung had abandoned their joint plans to develop an OLED display for a forthcoming updated 10.9-inch iPad Air.
Article Link: Kuo: Apple Cancels Plans to Release iPad Air With OLED Display in 2022, Plans to Stick With LCD Technology
Cmon now. Timmy’s done a pretty good job. I can easily say I’m holding the greatest mobile phone ever released in the 13 Pro Max. Sure, some people have had some bugs, but they’ll get quashed quicker than any other company would dream of doing so. Even I had the unlock watch Face ID issue that was fixed in less than 7 days which is ridiculously impressive when you think of the scale that apple work on.
Steve would be looking down at Timmy with a glint in his turtle neck sweater and running around heaven screaming $1,000,000,000!!!!!!
I'm not using OLED iPhone. My only OLED product is Apple Watch - everything else is LCD.
OLED display would be the thing that would get me to upgrade from a 6th gen 9.7" iPad, and I'd be willing to pay for the price of a Pro model if it had OLED. When I'm not watching TV / movies on one of my plasma TVs, my iPhone 12 Pro Max is what I watch them on. That small OLED display is better than even my 2019 16" MacBook Pro for TV/movies, though I do appreciate that 16" has 23.976 Hz and 24 Hz refresh rate options, but now 13 Pro Max has VRR making it the best display Apple offers for watching TV / movies, especially if size isn't a factor.
I may consider an OLED Android tablet just for TV / movies / video if Apple can't deliver. My 6th gen iPad will be fine for iPadOS-specific tasks for a while I imagine.
Am I under-estimating mini-LED? I've seen it in store in iPad Pro, but haven't watched movies / TV with lots of dark scenes. Willing to evaluate this more and see if I'm wrong. I'm more likely to get an upcoming MacBook w/ Mini LED than an iPad Pro, though.
I guess in several years we may have better tech than OLED (microLED?), so maybe Apple is planning to skip over OLED for iPads and Macs? Not entirely unreasonable if mini-LED gets close enough and avoids the burn-in issues of OLED.
I may consider an OLED Android tablet just for TV / movies / video if Apple can't deliver. My 6th gen iPad will be fine for iPadOS-specific tasks for a while I imagine.
Am I under-estimating mini-LED? I've seen it in store in iPad Pro, but haven't watched movies / TV with lots of dark scenes. Willing to evaluate this more and see if I'm wrong. I'm more likely to get an upcoming MacBook w/ Mini LED than an iPad Pro, though.
I guess in several years we may have better tech than OLED (microLED?), so maybe Apple is planning to skip over OLED for iPads and Macs? Not entirely unreasonable if mini-LED gets close enough and avoids the burn-in issues of OLED.
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