Ok, so I don't think I have really been able to find out any specific information on this topic. If Apple were to manage to add MicroLED to the Apple Watch this year for the Series 6, how realistic battery gain could be expected from it? Anyone thinking that there is any chance for the Apple Watch to get 4-5 days of battery life this year?
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Micro LED has been rumored For the Apple for years. They actually purchased a company back in 2014, known as ‘Luxeview’, who actually developed micro LED panels, in which Apple ‘bought out’ that company likely for R&D purposes. I assume the first time we will see Micro-Led will be the ‘paradigm shift‘ for the Apple Watch, then transition over to the iPhone. Mini LED will be another spectrum probably for the iPad and MacBook.
The reason Micro-Led will be a major key point for Apple in the future, is it has significantly less power draw over OLED, which will transition to extended battery life. Plus, it allows for a higher brightness, wided-color-gamut and increased resolution.
Yeah. I know about the technology. I just was wondering how much of an actual battery savings it has the potential to bring to the Apple Watch. For me to care much about a gain, I think it needs to get close to a week. Otherwise, I think I just prefer to charge it every night. I like charging schedules to be consistent, which seems to be Apple's thinking.
MicroLED is up to about 50% more efficient than OLED. This is a big savings but NOTHING like what you are suggesting. It will probably give the Watch about 24 (18+50%=27) hours at current usage. In all likelihood Apple will add sensors (like Blood O2 Level/relevant to todays needs) and keep it "All Day" and about the same spec. To get a week it would have to be almost 900% more efficient.
Also to add to Relentless Power. MicroLED is NON organic and doesn't degrade so easily and is not as sensitive to moisture or oxidation. Also MicroLED doesn't suffer much from burn-in.
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You talking about the Cupertino Apple? That one? The one that just put a LIDAR scanner in a tablet? That put 3D laser facial mapping in a phone nearly three years ago, jumping an entire planned update cycle because they could? That makes its own CPUs to be generations ahead of the competition? That Apple?
Sure, they'll hold off on stuff that's not ready for prime time, like 5G (and LTE back in the day), but in no way are they reluctant to go absolutely bonkers with stuff nobody saw coming.
LOL I love it when people say is never the first to something.
Like you mentioned with FaceID being in the iPhone X, the Android manufacturers were tripping over themselves trying to implement something similar and if I recall correctly so far the only Android OEM to come out with something similar was google with the Pixel 4 and that was 2 years after the X. LOL.
The Apple Watch, The HomePod, the AirPods, none of those products Apple was first to on the market (When all the competitors were ahead of Apple), as matter fact, they literally were last In those segments. But I digress. The point is, Apple does have some Technological advancements they are first in the market with, but in terms of actual core products, they are not. Maybe that’s the point that you’re missing here and/or conflating with certain advancements with technology versus the product(s) mentioned above.
Back to micro LED, that technology has already been demoed by Sony and Samsung, but Apple won’t be the ‘first‘, they’ll just refined it to their spec’.
Can we agree that what's important for a business like Apple's is less "being first" than "being first to get it right"?
That can (in fact, should... in fact, must) include a critical mass of functionality and an ecosystem of supportive products and services.
I'm reminded of Apple's brief association with Motorola, which produced the gawdawful Rokr. This was two years before the iPhone. Critical mass just wasn't there. Had Apple itself released such a hot mess of a product, it would have died in its crib. (More likely, Steve would have smothered it.) Instead, Apple waited until they had everything needed to make the dream of a personal communicator come true.
Getting it right is more important than getting it first. IMHO.