iPad Mini features Samsung display chip

The reality is that Samsung makes some things better than anyone else and if you want to offer the best products - like Apple is adamant to do - they will find it very difficult to not use Samsung components. There are things - especially when it comes to display technology - where Samsung is just way ahead of their rivals. It will not be in Apple's best interests to sideline Samsung completely because of other quarrels.
 
BeVonk! said:
The reality is that Samsung makes some things better than anyone else and if you want to offer the best products - like Apple is adamant to do - they will find it very difficult to not use Samsung components. There are things - especially when it comes to display technology - where Samsung is just way ahead of their rivals. It will not be in Apple's best interests to sideline Samsung completely because of other quarrels.
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I don't know why they aren't using Sharp more... Sharp is really suffering financially; they could just about buy them out just for their screen tech. Those IGZO displays are outstanding.
 
cerebus said:
I don't know why they aren't using Sharp more... Sharp is really suffering financially; they could just about buy them out just for their screen tech. Those IGZO displays are outstanding.
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The thing is that Apple don't want to touch manufacturing anything themselves ... so they will never buy a manufacturing company (like Sharp). They may well buy the patents such a company owns. Sometimes companies are bought just for the intellectual capital and the rest abandoned or sold off. Apple have the money to do so for sure, but I think they may prefer to rather keep Sharp as a manufacturing rival option to Samsung.
 
I do have reservations about the quality that Sharp can guarantee. The IGZO displays may be great tech, but how is the quality ... i.e. will it give Apple users three years? That matters a lot to Apple.
 
I'm not so sure that they don't want to touch manufacturing. The A6/A6X was a completely internal fabrication. They're moving increasingly more towards autonomy and verticalisation.
 
cerebus said:
I'm not so sure that they don't want to touch manufacturing. The A6/A6X was a completely internal fabrication. They're moving increasingly more towards autonomy and verticalisation.
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The A6/A6X was designed by Apple but did they manufacture the chip themselves?
 
Apple designs much of their own stuff but partners with various manufacturers to make the things. Manufacturing is "dirty" (in many ways) and not what Apple would want to do. I won't either if I was in Apple's position. Manufacturing comes with many challenges ... just ask Foxconn. Apple don't want factory floor workers to look after ... they have the geeks and the geeks don't burn things down (unless by accident in the lab LOL!).
 
Typical Apple spin. "Apple want to rely less on Samsung". Suddenly.
This would have no bearing on a Samsung statement 2 months ago (reported on this very site, iirc), that Samsung are cutting supplies of hardware to Apple over the coming year.
Either way, this is a major problem for Apple, especially where displays are concerned. Already the newly announced Nexus 10 has a better display than the iPad. That's a first - a newly released Apple device not having the best screen. (always one of their major selling points)
 
BeVonk! said:
The reality is that Samsung makes some things better than anyone else and if you want to offer the best products - like Apple is adamant to do - they will find it very difficult to not use Samsung components. There are things - especially when it comes to display technology - where Samsung is just way ahead of their rivals. It will not be in Apple's best interests to sideline Samsung completely because of other quarrels.
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Some good comments there. The South Koreans are driven to deliver the best and in the technology space they excel. If it means we see less of a spat between Apple and Samsung over this "parting of ways", then this is good news.
 
K3NS31 said:
Typical Apple spin. "Apple want to rely less on Samsung". Suddenly.
This would have no bearing on a Samsung statement 2 months ago (reported on this very site, iirc), that Samsung are cutting supplies of hardware to Apple over the coming year.
Either way, this is a major problem for Apple, especially where displays are concerned. Already the newly announced Nexus 10 has a better display than the iPad. That's a first - a newly released Apple device not having the best screen. (always one of their major selling points)
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Apple sticking to the current res has got more to do with keeping current apps compatible than the procurement of parts. They need to figure out a way to make IOS more resolution independent if they want to play the res game with other tablet manufacturers. Android gets away from the issue by not having fixed screen sizes, but suffers massively for it with devs not developing tablets apps because of the moving target.
 
I noticed on some Android apps as well it struggles to scale properly to fit all screen sizes. It would frequently allocate a certain asset to the wrong DPI on the Nexus7 which resulted in a slightly blurred icon or such.
 
The test for me will be what the text look like in the Kindle app. If it is almost as good as on the iPad 3 I may well get me a Mini. It sux reading books on the iPad 2 once you've done so on a iPad 3.
 
iPad 4 using LG screen ... Jeremy Horwitz ‏@horwitz So one of our new 4th-gen iPads has a line of dead pixels. The first time I've seen that on a Retina iPad, which previously had great QC.

Oops. Moving away from Samsung will have it's issues ...
 
BeVonk! said:
The test for me will be what the text look like in the Kindle app. If it is almost as good as on the iPad 3 I may well get me a Mini. It sux reading books on the iPad 2 once you've done so on a iPad 3.
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DUDE, it sucks reading on anything bigger / heavier than a Kindle once you get used to it.
 
K3NS31 said:
DUDE, it sucks reading on anything bigger / heavier than a Kindle once you get used to it.
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I know. I have two Kindle devices. The Mini is however also light and thin and one can read with its backlight at night. If we get the Paperwhite Kindle then great but Amazon has told me SA is not on their roadmap yet.
 
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