Kuo: Apple Cancels Plans to Release iPad Air With OLED Display in 2022, Plans to Stick With LCD Technology

[I7guy]

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.

True, rumors about rumors.

 

[cliffordyen]

Where’s even one peer-reviewed clinical study published in a reputable medical journal that says that?

OK, now I know why no one answered your request. Last night, I provided two papers (one from IEEE, one from Samsung's engineer) which stated clearly how low-frequency PWM affects humans, but MacRumors gave me a warning saying my message is awaiting moderator approval, and now it's gone. This is unacceptable to me.

As a PWM-sensitive person, I am always offended when people say PWM is nothing bad. You don't feel it, doesn't mean everyone doesn't feel it. Can you imagine you can't stare at your iPhone for more than 15-20 minutes just because of something that you "can't" see? That is what (some) PWM-sensitive people feel.

I am pretty sure you can find many studies on this issue (but MacRumors just doesn't allow me to attach the links), but my point is: stop defending something harmful to a small percentage of people just because you are not affected. You are lucky, but not everyone has the luxury to enjoy it.

 

[cmaier]

OK, now I know why no one answered your request. Last night, I provided two papers (one from IEEE, one from Samsung's engineer) which stated clearly how low-frequency PWM affects humans, but MacRumors gave me a warning saying my message is awaiting moderator approval, and now it's gone. This is unacceptable to me.

As a PWM-sensitive person, I am always offended when people say PWM is nothing bad. You don't feel it, doesn't mean everyone doesn't feel it. Can you imagine you can't stare at your iPhone for more than 15-20 minutes just because of something that you "can't" see? That is what (some) PWM-sensitive people feel.

I am pretty sure you can find many studies on this issue (but MacRumors just doesn't allow me to attach the links), but my point is: stop defending something harmful to a small percentage of people just because you are not affected. You are lucky, but not everyone has the luxury to enjoy it.

And yet I don’t accept it is harmful to a ANYONE. Who gave the samsung engineer a medical degree? The IEEE is electrical engineers, not doctors.

I said one peer-reviewed paper in a MEDICAL journal. All you’ve done is mention comments (without links) by non-doctors.

 

[cliffordyen]

And yet I don’t accept it is harmful to a ANYONE. Who gave the samsung engineer a medical degree? The IEEE is electrical engineers, not doctors.

I said one peer-reviewed paper in a MEDICAL journal. All you’ve done is mention comments (without links) by non-doctors.

I have no idea why I have to find a paper you want to prove this issue when "I myself experience it." Will you ask a color-blind person to do the same just because you don't suffer from that?

 

[thejadedmonkey]

Since you are making the claim, how many people does it affect? And what’s the evidence for that?

I don't know how many people it effects. There's a thread with 150 pages of replies here on MR, with people complaining about it.

I can speak from experience that it effected their phone sales by exactly 1 unit, as well as cost the postage and refurbishment costs of exactly 1 phone.

Given that the "fix" is simply increasing the PWM of the screen, there's no reason Apple wouldn't fix it.

 

[Techwatcher]

It’s still IPS LCD cell, only the backlight has changed from edge-lit diffused LED to direct-lit miniLED. VA LCD cell with miniLED is even better than IPS with MiniLED as we have seen in TV’s. Apple should have gone for that instead.

Yeah I'm aware it's still "LCD" but I even held my M1 iPad Pro next to my 3rd gen iPad Pro's regular LCD and the difference in quality was astounding.

 

[Cheffy Dave]

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

My new 12.9” iPP, with it’s M1 Chip,16 GB Ram, 2 TB SSD , and MINI LED just wow’s me every time I fire it up. With the Mini LED, no burn in issues, just a amazing screen, and wicked fast, much faster than the 2018 12.9“, 8 GB Ram,512 SSD, that my wife uses and just loves it over her 11” iPP. WE are VERY pleased with our 12.9’s, now Mr Timmeah, about the 15” iPP?