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Thinner iPad 3 Coming with Low-Power Retina Display?
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Apple filed patents for dual light bar OLEDs. If there is no IPS, maybe OLED could be the answer. It would then be sharp, vibrant, and have a wide viewing angle. In other words, the best display on the planet.
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So
Apple quietly moves away from Samsung.
Finally! If I were apple I would toast the day I drop them for good with their marketing and legal divisions dirty tactics.
As they used to say in the old pc gaming world, "get some skill".
So
Apple quietly moves away from Samsung.
Finally! If I were apple I would toast the day I drop them for good with their marketing and legal divisions dirty tactics.
As they used to say in the old pc gaming world, "get some skill".
Is iTunes doing 1080p yet? I honestly don't keep up well enough, but I don't think that they do.
I just wonder how a higher resolution iPad is going to affect the way video services, such as iTunes and also Netflix and Hulu and anyone else, put out their content. Maybe up to 720p won't look too noticeably degraded on a higher resolution screen when it's just over a foot away from your eyes(?).
(I'm at a 13inch MacBook right now with 1280x800 display, so I don't have a good reference point at the moment.)
Anyway, with this, and probably an Apple TV set next year, 1080p iTunes is more than likely soon to come as well!
I just wonder how a higher resolution iPad is going to affect the way video services, such as iTunes and also Netflix and Hulu and anyone else, put out their content. Maybe up to 720p won't look too noticeably degraded on a higher resolution screen when it's just over a foot away from your eyes(?).
(I'm at a 13inch MacBook right now with 1280x800 display, so I don't have a good reference point at the moment.)
Anyway, with this, and probably an Apple TV set next year, 1080p iTunes is more than likely soon to come as well!
More like, leave it to Apple to be crazy enough to invest 1 billion dollars to make somebody find out how to make such a crazy screen. Remember Apple doesn't make this themselves, but maybe if it weren't for Apple with such an enormous cash reserve we would have to wait much longer for displays like this.
soco
macrumors 68030
Well, Steve often made mistakes. More often, he was a genius and made the right decision.
Many times throughout Apple's history, he made ridiculous demands for things like thin-ness where further thin-ness could not be accomplished. Often, the point wasn't to get things thinner, but to just push his teams to do great things.
morespce54
macrumors 65816
Sharp makes complete sense. Sharp has made LCDs longer then any other company. It is the only company that actually manufactures in house all its LCDs. LG and Samsung outsources to various parties a large portion of its LCD manufacturing.
Moreover, Sharp has innovative technology like adding a fourth color pixel to make the screens even more Sharp (no pun intended).
Out of all the rumors, this one I think has the most validity. Apple wants to dump Samsung, and Sharp makes higher quality displays. Finally, Sharp and Samsung have a long history of not liking each other as Samsung has pilfered Sharp's technology as well.
Moreover, Sharp has innovative technology like adding a fourth color pixel to make the screens even more Sharp (no pun intended).
Out of all the rumors, this one I think has the most validity. Apple wants to dump Samsung, and Sharp makes higher quality displays. Finally, Sharp and Samsung have a long history of not liking each other as Samsung has pilfered Sharp's technology as well.
skinnylegs
macrumors 65816
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I stood in line for both the iP1 and iP2. Love the device. I've also fooled around with just about every other iteration of the tablet including both Kindle and Nook's latest and greatest. IMO, you see just how much Apple nailed it when you use these other devices.
That said, I won't buy another iP unless Apple releases a 7" version. This is about the only thing I think the other guys got right.
I stood in line for both the iP1 and iP2. Love the device. I've also fooled around with just about every other iteration of the tablet including both Kindle and Nook's latest and greatest. IMO, you see just how much Apple nailed it when you use these other devices.
That said, I won't buy another iP unless Apple releases a 7" version. This is about the only thing I think the other guys got right.
This rumor is spot on. This is the breakthrough one, it simply makes the most sense. The iPad 3 is going to be incredible and the display technology will expand to the macbook line. Possibly the iMac/Thunderbolt displays too. Can you imagine? I honestly can't.
And to speak to other people's concerns recently about GPU's not being able to drive that size display - people would live with it. The (even mobile) GPUs of today will be able to drive the displays at high res with normal UIKit or Cocoa type workload. And games can still run at half resolution if people want. Apple would hit the target of good performance on a huge screen with 'light' GUI elements, and let users play games or whatever at full res slowly or lower res quickly. It's almost the identical stance that's been taken thus far up until iPhone 4S / iPad 2 / most recent high-end iMac.. now that the GPUs are finally catching up, I can see them 'raising the bar' again without a single thought
At the end of the day, what matters is you have a retina display.
This screen technology is going to blow everything out of the water
And to speak to other people's concerns recently about GPU's not being able to drive that size display - people would live with it. The (even mobile) GPUs of today will be able to drive the displays at high res with normal UIKit or Cocoa type workload. And games can still run at half resolution if people want. Apple would hit the target of good performance on a huge screen with 'light' GUI elements, and let users play games or whatever at full res slowly or lower res quickly. It's almost the identical stance that's been taken thus far up until iPhone 4S / iPad 2 / most recent high-end iMac.. now that the GPUs are finally catching up, I can see them 'raising the bar' again without a single thought
At the end of the day, what matters is you have a retina display.
This screen technology is going to blow everything out of the water
And the u.s government need to improve their education for engineering then apple can assemble their own products themselves and their quality will step up even more.
Shrink
macrumors G3
Haha, I'm just imagining the Samsung jokes at meetings between Sharp and Apple as both companies probably hate Samsung.
Oh sure they'll make the iPad 3 thinner but forget about that ultra thick iPod Touch they have these days! 😀
Depending on the price, I'm considering jumping ship with this next upgrade.
Depending on the price, I'm considering jumping ship with this next upgrade.
Icaras
macrumors 603
Thankfully you're not running the company. Apple wouldn't be where it is today if it weren't for the product choices it made over the years.
No.
Lower margin for Sharp, but guaranteed sales and no sales, distribution or marketing costs.
And I dobut it's taking up all their production lines anyway.
algiris
macrumors 6502a
He does have a point. Twice they've killed functionality for size.
The 3rd generation shuffle & the 6th generation nano.
Absolutely nothing to do with it. Apple wants to be nimble and they don't want to own their own factories.