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LG Working to Bring OLED Displays to Future iPad and MacBook Models

I always wondered why doesn't Apple buy from LG instead of Samsung since they have so many legal issues with Samsung and they are a direct competitor to them in the smartphone market. Maybe buy 50/50 to keep your options open.
 
MacBH928 said:
I always wondered why doesn't Apple buy from LG instead of Samsung since they have so many legal issues with Samsung and they are a direct competitor to them in the smartphone market. Maybe buy 50/50 to keep your options open.
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Apple buys from the vendor that can provide the specified component at the price requested in the volumes needed. It is a business transaction. It is not emotionally driven. Samsung’s components divisions produce quality technology and are a good supplier.

Samsung, for their part, are also focused on business. The division supplying a component is not the division in a legal dispute over some phone patent. Each division is run like an independent business and has their own profit/loss statement to worry about. They are not going to turn down a contract just because some other division is in a legal dispute.

Apple does often source components from multiple manufacturers. That can be because no one manufacturer can supply the necessary volume or because Apple wants to ensure that, if one supplier has a problem, they can shift sourcing to another supplier with minimal disruption. These things are more important at Apple’s scale than small scale disagreements in court (especially when it is with a different group).
 
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Mizouse said:
Count me in!
I picked up a LG C1 during Black Friday and now I want everything OLED. Love the colors, inky blacks, HDR and the fast response times over LED/LCD.

I wanted the Alienware QD-OLED ultra wide but I also sometimes game on a PS5 so I may go with the 42” LG C2 instead.

And from what I gather burn in has been well mitigated from C8 series and onward.
More so with CX and C1.
Also the new QD-OLED is claimed to be less susceptible to burn-in since it only uses blue oled pixels and quantum dot filters to create red and green.
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It had better be QD-OLED right Apple.
 
Yes please. I have an OLED TV (Sony A9 48”) and a MacBook Pro 14” and video content looks *way* better on the TV. I just don’t love the MBP screen, besides the facts that colours don’t feel ‘full’ or ‘saturated’ enough and blooming is a thing, I am experiencing trailing pixels, making the whole 120Hz point completely moot. I would 100% trade that 1,600 nit 120Hz XDR mini-LED for a 600-nit 60Hz OLED.

It just feels like Samsung aren’t able to make computer-sized retina AMOLED screens these days, and the sub pixels don’t have the same resolution (due to overcompensating on blue light to fight premature aging of blue subpixels), leading to a certain fuzziness, so I really hope QD-OLED ushers in a new generation of MacBook/iPad caliber displays.
 
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My eyes love OLED so I’m all for this, but I have a real problem with current iPads being too dim. so if it’s just going to be worse then I’d rather see us stay on the current tech. But brighter. 1000nit non-peak is what I want.
 
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