What reason would they have for taking legal action? It's not a monopoly because they are abusing patents and licensing, it's because Samsung are the only company who are geared up to produce enough panels.
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Samsung's OLED Display Monopoly May Explain iPhone 8's Rumored $1,000 Price
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Expected this from a macrumors commenter. Was not disappointed.
Apple see's sp much as unfair to them and their a history of that, we all like Apple but it must be a fair game.
They did, they bought that display company that made Micro LED displays back in 2014.
And please tell us, who else has the capacity to produce enough OLED displays for apple?
Well, oled is now supposedly the cheaper technology between it and LCD so either Apple are going for a really top end unit (maybe RGB stripe rather than pentile?) or Samsung are charging a premium because Apple require so much of their production capacity.
Either way you can't blame Samsung for 'monopolising' the technology, it's more they decided to get behind it and have pretty much been the driving force that brought it into the mainstream while everyone else was ambivalent.
Either way you can't blame Samsung for 'monopolising' the technology, it's more they decided to get behind it and have pretty much been the driving force that brought it into the mainstream while everyone else was ambivalent.
You clearly haven't watched reviews of the V30. That screen is quality for their first crack at it..
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I doubt Samsung will give Apple a panel that's better than what's on their own devices.
Perhaps Dell was using them in the 4k OLED display? Samsung will never give their best to Apple or anyone and that make sense, all the reason to dev your own and find someone else to manufacture them.
You really think Steve would have been dumb enough to launch a $10k+ watch?
So how does that explain the brand new Samsung handsets that are around $1000?
Yeah, that's why we have this great new, lean TV package they dreamed up
OLED is great, sure, but that humongous bezel all around the display is fugly, making the overall look of the phone much less impressive than it could be should Apple be able to pull something along Sammy's "infinity display".
The $700,000,000,000,000 company is blaming costs on the supplier.
Edit: Even more zeroes.
Edit: Even more zeroes.
Is anything rumored about the iPhone that puts it on a 1:1 feature ratio with the Note?
Let's blow that notion up real quick.
6.3" display.
That contract is for that many deliveries over two years, however. 90 million panels would at best cover two months at current sell-through for the entire iPhone line.
Exactly. I expect one of the reasons Apple will be charging such a premium for this phone is to depress demand because there is not even remotely enough capacity to make them to meet the demand at the current iPhone 7 pricing (we'd likely need to see production over 25 million units per quarter).
Fake news. Samsung doesn't have a monopoly on OLED. LG is farther ahead than Samsung in the development of OLED. The fact is LG is the only one making large OLED panels for TVs after Samsung stopped making OLED TVs after their first generation due to production difficulties.
Why was that dumb? Just because I can't afford doesn't mean it's stupid. It just means it was never meant for me.
So be it, Apple has tied up markets in the past (memory) and this will be temporary. Aren't they headed for micro-LED anyway?