Slumping Sales at Apple Touch Panel Partner Wintek Interpreted as Sign of In-Cell Adoption

[Macman45]

I agree. And the thought of a total change in the composition of the product (glass to metal, etc.) to achieve 1.5mm is somewhat disturbing to me.

Don't want to be alarmist, but one of the overarching themes at Apple during the current renessaince has been that Ives rules first, and the engineers had to adapt the technology to fit his style. Going from glass to metal seems like a nod to engineering over style, IMO.

I'll be more concerned if they start using plastic. That would be a deal breaker for me....won't happen though...

 

[MagnusVonMagnum]

this is about 0.5 mm? I have been a big fan of thin, but this seems a bit extreme. I hope there are some other benefits other than 0.5 mm.

The thin gaunt waistline of the Uber Jobs lives on. Apple won't be happy until the iPhone is only 1 atom thick and will then try to find a way to make it thinner yet by inventing sub-atomic iPhones.

 

[samcraig]

Glass back and front?

No - but who really cares? I don't consider that remotely a worthwhile differentiator.

 

[theBB]

No - but who really cares? I don't consider that remotely a worthwhile differentiator.

Dude, you were the one saying " my phone has gorilla glass, now iPhone needs something else to be "different and aesthetically pleasing". If aesthetics did not matter, why bring it up? If yours lack aesthetics, then iPhone does not need something else in the first place. If you are not part of a target market where aesthetics matter, why do you feel the need to troll a forum for such users?

 

[samcraig]

Dude, you were the one saying " my phone has gorilla glass, now iPhone needs something else to be "different and aesthetically pleasing". If aesthetics did not matter, why bring it up? If yours lack aesthetics, then iPhone does not need something else in the first place. If you are not part of a target market where aesthetics matter, why do you feel the need to troll a forum for such users?

I guess you missed the part where I was quoting ANOTHER poster. I was also being snarky to that poster as if glass on the front AND back is the selling point to an iPhone.

Just because I don't agree with you or the other poster doesn't make me a troll anymore than it would make you a "fanboy."

And I never said aesthetics didn't matter - way to draw a horribly wrong conclusion. I said having glass on both sides of the phone wasn't worthwhile.

Lastly - I own many Apple products including the iPhone 4 - that's my interest in this forum. That - and oh yeah - this isn't just a place to worship Apple. It's a discussion forum.

 

[KdParker]

Well...lets see this phone already Apple

 

[slapple]

The poor sales at Wintek would have to indicate weak Apple product sales, right? Look at all the phrases from the article that I bolded - "rumors of a shift", "would likely", "could allow", "will seek to". All those phrases mean this in-cell technology is NOT in any current Apple products, so how could Wintek sales be affected by it right now?

I'm thinking AAPL stock might be a good short on the day before earnings.

Good call.