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Sapphire Displays for iPhone 6 Missed by 'Weeks' Due to Yield Issues
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Bet your bottom someone will.
GT should have been all over this months ago and had their SME's in China to ensure they knew how to work with Sapphire materials.
If I were a share holder I would be losing my mind at how big of an opportunity is being missed.
100% unacceptable. They've clearly known about this for year or more.
Talk about dropping the ball.
Finally, I've been wondering all these years what S means, it's Sapphire... iPhone 6S anyone? 
Seriously though, even if the larger screen was the only new feature of the 6+, I'd still be buying it. I spend way too much time reading on my 5S... my eyes (and ophthalmologist) demand it.
Seriously though, even if the larger screen was the only new feature of the 6+, I'd still be buying it. I spend way too much time reading on my 5S... my eyes (and ophthalmologist) demand it.
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I really don't see what all the fuss is with sapphire. I never see somebody with a scratched screen, I see lots of people with shattered screens. It seems to me that sapphire screens will be even more prone to shattering when a phone is dropped...
Do you also have LQMT? I do, and it took a tumble when Apple failed to mention it at all during the keynote.
Oh, well. Hopefully, my AAPL stake will make up for it. I'm holding on to the LQMT until it either fizzles to zero or blasts off to the stratosphere.
I don't live in a perfect world. Why?
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Why? What's wrong with improvements on the fly?
Not sure that would be such a great idea. I could imagine a lot of iPhones with glass screens and AppleCare+ would "fall into the lake" after the sapphire version became available.
I was actually hoping it wouldn't have sapphire, if the tests were true about it being less prone to scratching but more prone to breakage. I keep my phone in my pocket with nothing else. And I drop my phone ALL THE TIME. As does my young child whenever she gets a hand on it. I'd much rather have a scratched display that's still in one piece over a cracked screen.
Maybe so, but Apple wouldn't have to make an announcement if they do the spec change, they could just list it in the iPhone specs. People have to pay a fee for a replacement with AppleCare+ and even more of a fee with the carrier issued insurance, so who knows?
All good points. But it wouldn't take long for word to get out, and I know a lot of "geeks" would pay $79 to say their phone has sapphire. Not logical, but true.
Then again, if they were to spec bump in this model they might also start replacing broken screens with the sapphire.
Personally, I don't think I would be upset unless somehow the sapphire screen had a much greater resistance to breaking, scratching doesn't worry me as much as dropping and breaking. I wouldn't go out of my way to break my glass screen just to have sapphire. If the day came and I did break the screen, then fine, but I wouldn't spend the $79 to solve a problem that hasn't happened yet, I'd wait.
apple doesn't do that with main features, just invisible insignificant stuff inside. It would be a giant middle finger to everyone who bought it on launch day as well.
iPhone 6S predictions
I know it's a bit early, but rumors are always welcome, right?
iPhone 6S = Saphire Edition!
But I think Apple will something from the cake, so they'll do it as upgrade on both high end devices +100$ iphone 6 and 150$ iphone 6+. Like on the Macbook Pro with antireflective screen and high res.
Other than that LTE 600Mbyte Chip, Bluetooth 4.1, A9, 13MP Cam, better battery, more health functions, and if not in IOS8, side by side apps real multitasking and perhaps 32GB entry version.
What do you guys think? Saphire will be future and apple will make it big as always!
I know it's a bit early, but rumors are always welcome, right?
iPhone 6S = Saphire Edition!
But I think Apple will something from the cake, so they'll do it as upgrade on both high end devices +100$ iphone 6 and 150$ iphone 6+. Like on the Macbook Pro with antireflective screen and high res.
Other than that LTE 600Mbyte Chip, Bluetooth 4.1, A9, 13MP Cam, better battery, more health functions, and if not in IOS8, side by side apps real multitasking and perhaps 32GB entry version.
What do you guys think? Saphire will be future and apple will make it big as always!
If the change comes several months down the line, I don't see how that's disrespecting the early adopters. People who buy at launch always assume certain risks, especially quality control and bugs. And maybe this sapphire for phone screens isn't going to pan out in the near future anyway. Apple may have jumped the gun a bit.
It will shatter only after being scratched. The gorilla glass vs. sapphire test had a small footnote "after abrasion test", meaning that they were first scratched with a very hard sand paper.
Have you ever cut ceramic tiles? It's done by first drawing the cut line with a diamond stylus and after that the tile breaks easily. Not so easy if the tile has not been scratched. So in order to shatter upon moderate impact, both gorilla glass and sapphire need to be scratched first. And gorilla glass will get scratched by sand and stone, sapphire won't.
Correct me if I have understood something wrong!
Edit: Of course both will shatter given a firm enough impact, but scratches lower the shattering threshold, I have experienced that a few times with my phones.
Every phone since the iPhone 4 has been the same phone just bigger and faster. That's what was so great about the iPhone 4.
Obviously he was just plain wrong and wants to make it seem like it was apple's thought. Happens time and again with analysts.
