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Samsung to Cease Providing LCD Panels to Apple in 2013
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It isn't as cool as it once was. So if I have Apple products (which I do, but not as many as before) that makes me a better person than someone who doesn't own any Apple products? Give me a break. I have it because I chose for my needs. Your thought process is very scary.
Of course there is, you're not an OEM and neither are any of those people. I prefer to wait and see, then judge the end result, instead of making uneducated guesses.
Many of you are jumping to conclusions that have not yet been drawn.
First, Samsung and Apple are ceasing business on displays, not on other components. So all of these posts naming other components are silly conjecture at best, based on zero facts. Samsung still supplies their memory, ssd's, processors, etc...you're assuming that since they're no longer supplying displays that they're also no longer supplying other components, when this has not been reported.
Second, Samsung does NOT have the best displays in many regards, I'm not sure where a lot of you get this information. LG doesn't, either, but because LG's are worse than Samsung's, that doesn't make Samsung's the best, either. Sharp makes far better displays than Samsung for those that want to talk actual facts.
First, Samsung and Apple are ceasing business on displays, not on other components. So all of these posts naming other components are silly conjecture at best, based on zero facts. Samsung still supplies their memory, ssd's, processors, etc...you're assuming that since they're no longer supplying displays that they're also no longer supplying other components, when this has not been reported.
Second, Samsung does NOT have the best displays in many regards, I'm not sure where a lot of you get this information. LG doesn't, either, but because LG's are worse than Samsung's, that doesn't make Samsung's the best, either. Sharp makes far better displays than Samsung for those that want to talk actual facts.
Hate to break it to you fan boi, but LG currently makes the best S-IPS panel on the market. Go look at a 27" iMac and tell me it's a poor display.
Samsung should go back to making microwaves and cheap home stereos.
But the end results are being discussed in the links I provided. LG displays are already in Apple products and they have been proven to be inferior with many tests.
I'm not sure what further results you need. But do enjoy waiting for confirmation on what's already been confirmed...
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The large chunk of Apple's cash pile is shifting per this very story. It is not being given to Samsung and is instead shifting to these other vendors. These other vendors are already mini-Samsungs, already making Android iDevices. Now they'll simply have a lot more cash flow to potentially accelerate the growth of their iDevice knockoffs business. That's what I meant by making several Samsungs. Apple is shifting cash to other iDevice competitors. Whether this is driven as some form of revenge by Samsung against Apple or Apple against Samsung, the outcome is the same: other firms no less interested than Samsung in growing their own revenues from iDevice-like Android toys will now have greater cash flows to step up their games.
Will this move Samsung to stop making iDevice-like Android toys? Not at all. So now, instead of having one big "knockoff" competitor with manufacturing revenue flows from Apple, there will be several big "knockoff" competitors with manufacturing revenue flows from Apple.
It won't take them years to be a Samsung-like threat to iDevices. They're already in the "knockoffs" business. Now they'll just have more Apple cash to potentially step it up.
LG displays in *SOME* Apple products are inferior, yes. But not in all. Samsung has made higher quality small LCD's (iPhone, iPad, etc), but their larger monitors are not on the same level.
Also, just because Samsung is better than LG on smaller panels, doesn't mean they're the best either. They were, however, the best for the price Apple was willing to pay. Apples to Apples -- for the cost -- LG's small displays were NOT as good as Samsung's. And Sharp, who arguably makes the highest quality displays there are, did not have the manufacturing capacity to meet Apple's demand.
Some don't like facts when they reflect poorly on Apple.
Actually it seems many here don't like facts when they reflect favorably (or in this case, not as a big deal as it's made out to be) on Apple. The fact is outside the Retina MBP and the initial shipment of the iPad 3rd gen, Samsung has not been that important of a display supplier for Apple because Apple has traditionally always relied heavily on LG for LCD display and Samsung isn't that big on LCDs.
Also I'm rather skeptical about this whole article from Korea Times. From what I've told iPad displays actually tend to have higher margins than other displays and there's no way Samsung Display can find another buyer who will buy displays that are as expensive the iPad Retina at that quantity, not even Amazon. It just reeks of someone from Samsung either doing damage control or leaking things to see how the market responds.
Samsung Display is a spun-off entity separated from Samsung that makes phones and electronic components such as chips and SSDs, a small fact everyone in this thread seems to ignore. Again, the bias runs strong for anti-Apple crowd but they keep accusing the pro-Apple crowd for bias.
Good, Samsung display's ... especially their TV's are awful, I've got a broken 47" with is < 2 years old but had a huge pink band in the middle with no picture due to very poor grade capacitors that have blown the T-CON board and the panel.... unfortunately Samsung wouldn't do anything about it.
One and only time I wish I had bought Curry's extended warranty
One and only time I wish I had bought Curry's extended warranty
ok, you stubborn fanboy:
from one review i quickly found which test the technical capabilities:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6063/macbook-air-13inch-mid-2012-review/3
Benchmarks
LCD Analysis - White : Samsung is superior
LCD Analysis - Black : Samsung is superior
LCD Analysis - Contrast : Samsung is superior
LCD Analysis - Colour Gamut : Samsung is superior
LCD Analysis - Delta E : LG is superior
A good fanboy always does their research, the rest are called sheeps
The defacto benchmark when it comes to tvs is still the kuro, was manufactured by Pioneer with an LCD produced by......gasp......Sharp.
With monitors, depends what your using it for but Dell, BENQ and Asus are but three that have produced MUCH better monitors than Samsung this year.
Every samsung device I've seen is actually really, really good.
I've only seen the Galaxy S 2 and 3, my relay, and the galaxy nexus though.
Good, Samsung display's ... especially their TV's are awful, I've got a broken 47" with is < 2 years old but had a huge pink band in the middle with no picture due to very poor grade capacitors that have blown the T-CON board and the panel.... unfortunately Samsung wouldn't do anything about it.
One and only time I wish I had bought Curry's extended warranty
For most people, Samsung's displays are fine...but videophiles dislike them on larger screens. I have a Samsung Plasma, it's nice...but it's not in the same league as Pioneer's, for example, who recently exited the market. Sharp also blow Samsung displays away, too...but again, for MOST users, they won't notice the difference.
The more profit Apple makes, the more able they are to make the greatest, most innovative products that the world has ever seen.
That is good for all of us!
I wonder how many posters here are saying "good" because they dislike samsung no matter what vs actually disliking their actual screen (for example).
I also wonder if some people (and I think we know who they might be) will say how much they are happy about this to psychologically psych themselves up because they are actually concerned and need to suppress those feelings.
I also wonder if some people (and I think we know who they might be) will say how much they are happy about this to psychologically psych themselves up because they are actually concerned and need to suppress those feelings.
The change will affect products released after 2013, where are the tests of these non-existing products? Do you think all panels are the same, and even that LG are the only option?
