At the moment they do.Nope Samsung doesn't have an exclusive deal. What makes you so confident on that when even the article mentions LG can supply the panels as soon as next month?
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Samsung Sole Supplier for Retina Display in New iPad?
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I just saw the Beam and go excited for a minute, but for a 15 Lumen projector I don't see the hype.
As a nice toy to impress your friends it's excellent. Other than that, worthless battery eating gadget.
I would prefer to connect my iPad/iPhone/iPod to a real HD Projector or even a dedicated pocket projector instead of making an important business presentation using a crappy low power, low resolution pocket projector.
Or better yet, AirPlay it to an HDTV over an AppleTV at HD Resolutions.
Regarding other specs, it has:
800x480 display resolution
768MB RAM (not 6GB as previously speculated).
Still, it's a good start, a nice teaser for things to (hopefully) come in the future.
Again, Apple will not "switch" the supplier. Both LG and Sharp will supply displays on top of Samsung. I don't know why you're so adamant on "ditch" and "switch" when multi-sourcing of panels over a product life span has always been the case for iPad since the first one.
I imagine it's because the poster believes that Apple doesn't want to rely on Samsung. But that ship has sailed. Repeatedly.
It doesn't seem Samsung believes it, as they can't stop making 100 different models; the market is swarmed with lots of phones that come and go.
One phone may be the greatest thing today but be gone by tomorrow.
I would really hate having to purchase a dock station and other similar accessories every time I change phones.
But I'm glad you found a phone you like. In my case, I would take anything, even a flip phone instead of the HTC Touch Pro 2 crap I have. I haven't got an iPhone thanks to AT&T ridiculously expensive plans, so I'm staying with T-Mobile for now.
I don't think Apple wants that but they do have some conflicting interests. It's going to get worse if Apple indeed enters the TV market.
No that's not an "exclusive deal". Usually that phrase refers to a contract that'll give the exclusive right to a single supplier. Samsung is supplying displays because they are the only one who at they moment can produce the component in the quality and quantity demanded, which is a very different thing from an "exclusive deal".
An exclusive deal would give Samsung the right to supply the displays with LG and Sharp being unable to provide Apple with the component for the certain amount of amount no matter what happens. This clearly isn't such.
They are, they're ****ing THIEVES. Period.
But they're still Apple's B*tch because they're still suppliers. That's a different business. On the mobile side, they're shameless rip-off artists. That doesn't mean Apple can't use their parts.
Compromises, compromises. There is no *moral* reason Apple should stop dealing with them. We simply discuss Samsung's perfidy. They're still a source for parts.
No it isn't, "mate." BUSINESS IS STILL BUSINESS. Even with thieves like Samsung. Parts division is a separate business.
I just find it fun to watch Darwinism in action. Extreme cases are even better!
Samsung does not = Apple.
Parts are parts.
Still waiting for a Samsung tablet that isn't ****. Interesting how Samsung, with their very own parts, can't outdo Apple.
I have a samsung TV for my HTS, but I have Harman Kardon speakers, and a delicious Pioneer Receiver. You can usually get the best out of your HTS when you mix/match for a good bit less. It's a headache to figure out what works with what, but once you get it all working, you're set
Agreed. I just have a cheap set to be honest. 32-inch TV and $150 surround sound DVD player from Samsung. Not complaining, but when I upgrade, I'll do better research. Thanks!
A Complicated Relationship
Apple is saying that Samsung will make things the way it says, and it will not make imitations of the things they were given to manufacture. Apple is the Design firm, and Samsung is a kind of jobber, in Apple's eyes. A competitive bid winner.
There is little doubt that Samsung is probably the engineering winner at the moment in the world electronics trade. A company that makes things to spec very well.
Its problem is, it doesn't want to stay Apple's bitch. The asian giants started to grow from the industrial strength encouraged by American policy and money in the postwar years. What they created is very powerful. We might be able to do assembly here in the U.S., but none of the parts would be made anywhere near. You want a Retina Display? Go to Samsung. Any American companies do that? Why, no. We've lost huge chunks of our industrial infrastructure, and we haven't been replacing it, just selling fraudulent debt instruments to the world.
Apple is saying that Samsung will make things the way it says, and it will not make imitations of the things they were given to manufacture. Apple is the Design firm, and Samsung is a kind of jobber, in Apple's eyes. A competitive bid winner.
There is little doubt that Samsung is probably the engineering winner at the moment in the world electronics trade. A company that makes things to spec very well.
Its problem is, it doesn't want to stay Apple's bitch. The asian giants started to grow from the industrial strength encouraged by American policy and money in the postwar years. What they created is very powerful. We might be able to do assembly here in the U.S., but none of the parts would be made anywhere near. You want a Retina Display? Go to Samsung. Any American companies do that? Why, no. We've lost huge chunks of our industrial infrastructure, and we haven't been replacing it, just selling fraudulent debt instruments to the world.
What do you mean "With their very own parts"? Again, Apple designed the parts, Apple has patents on the parts. Samsung, as someone else noted, can help Apple innovate with manufacturing technologies to help create said parts, but Apple still owns them. Samsung has their own patents (SAMOLED for example). If Samsung ever uses "their very own parts" that they built for Apple, it's because they licensed them from Apple or we're 7 years in the future and they're still on Retina displays.
Maybe Apple should design, develop, and produce its own displays and semi-conductors. You all act like Apple designed and invented every single thing used for its computers and tablets.
Samsung is treated as one company, which, sure, overall they are. But they recently spun off their LCD TV business (not LED though). When a corporation is that huge (and Samsung is really huge, thought their market cap and whatnot do not match Apple), they have to treat each of their arms as different from each other. They won't pull out of manufacturing for Apple and take a huge hit if Apple competes on the computer, music, mobile, and TV front.
What Samsung copycats exactly ? Please be more specific.
And what if Samsung (as bigger company) decides to buy Apple?
Thats what you fanboys always are saying if there is some "threat" to Apple, they should buy off those competitors? Samsung is bigger than Apple. Deal with it.
What Samsung copycats exactly ? Please be more specific.
And what if Samsung (as bigger company) decides to buy Apple?
Thats what you fanboys always are saying if there is some "threat" to Apple, they should buy off those competitors? Samsung is bigger than Apple. Deal with it.
Bigger maybe by land they take up and how many markets they're in and how many product lines they make (which, in these cases, I'm sure Apple is happier to be smaller).
But have you checked market cap sir? Not sure if $140 Billion is more than $500 Billion, but okay. You can also look at actual product sold too.
Also, Finland's GDP is only $240 Billion, and that's rounding up. All of this is USD.
Finlands debt of GDP is 60% and USA about 10.000% or something, stopped counting ages ago. Youre screwed.
Yes... YES... let the anger and Hatred Flow!!! The power of Apple is strong with this one....
Good, for a second there I thought I was responsible for creating 80Million iPad screens this year. My year just cleared up.
But yeah, I don't prefer one manufacture over the other.
But yeah, I don't prefer one manufacture over the other.
I think it's easier to name the things they did "design, develop, and produce" before naming the things they didn't. Samsung just manufacturers for them, though Samsung should have credit because this stuff is cutting edge and clearly no one else can manufacture it.
Apple designed the chip (off ARM schematics, sure, but they're different), designed the motherboard, the screen technology, the battery capacity, the chassis it all sits in. Sure they didn't invent memory or circuitry or silicon for that matter, but is that a big deal?
On the desktop/laptop side of things, they use a little more off the shelf, but they pioneered the aluminum bricks into computers, people did it before, but not for computers and not the way they did. Also, they pioneers the MacBook Air completely (except maybe display and processor, but you still have to design how it all fits.)
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Haha, I never said the US wasn't screwed. I completely agree with you there man!
Do you have any proof of Apple patents on a retina display?
It seems much more likely that Apple simply asked all of their potential suppliers to submit a bid on a 2048x1536 9.7" IPS display.
Please explain - many of their LCDs have LED backlights. Did you mean to say AMOLED instead of "LED"?