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The Consistency of Apple AR/VR Headset Rumors

by Omid Rahmat

The tune hasn’t changed much, neither have the lyrics, but all indications are that Apple’s suppliers are not dancing a happy jig.

Tags:Apple| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Luxshare| Pegatron| VR

Southeast Asia Entry-Level Smartphone Shipments Rise 28%

by Omid Rahmat

While 2022 saw a 13% YoY decline in smartphone shipments in Southeast Asia, budget-priced phone sales rose 28% QoQ in Q4. As for brand performance, Apple and Samsung sustained 2021 volumes while greater than …

Apple Rounds Up Luxshare, Foxconn, TSMC, and Sony to Make AR Device

by Shawnee Blackwood

A clearer picture is emerging of what is going into the making of Apple’s competitor to Meta’s Quest. It may be that we have to look no further than Sony’s PSVR2. Nikkei Asia is …

The Display Has Driven Me to the Dark Side

by Bob Raikes

It started with a display. Of course. When I decided to get a new tablet as my old Samsung just didn’t have enough storage for anything very useful any more, I couldn’t resist the …

Tags:4k| 8K| Apple| MiniLED

Apple Helping Samsung and LG Best BOE and Move to 8th Gen Lines

by Omid Rahmat

News out of Korea has Apple awarding its newest iPad Pro OLED business to the Korean giants in both 10.9 in and 12.9 in configurations. The next generation of iPad Pros are unlikely to …

Tags:Apple| iPad| LG| OLED| Samsung

Mixed Reality Will Increase Apple’s Hegemony of the Display Industry

by Omid Rahmat

There is sufficient chatter among Apple stans and media fans to suggest that the company’s mixed reality (MR) headset is going to be a seminal product for the company, if not the industry. It’s …

Tags:Apple| Mixed Reality

Apple Supplier, Finland’s Salcomp, Doubling Indian Workforce

by Omid Rahmat

Salcom is owned by China’s Lingyi Itech and is Apple’s major charger supplier. The company is building a housing complex for about 15,000 people, to add to its existing workforce of 12,000, and is …

Tags:Apple| Salcom

SK Hynix and LG Displays to Make MicroOLEDs for Meta

by Omid Rahmat

The social media giant will be designing the chips to be manufactured as part of its ongoing investment in the mixed reality displays. The expected timing for all this is 2025 to 2026. According …

First Quarter 2023 Notebook Sales Bring Halloween Scares Early

by Omid Rahmat

New market data paints a woeful picture of notebook sales in the fourth quarter of 2022 with no respite for the first quarter of this year. Consumer and enterprise demand basically tanked. According to …

Latest Smartphone Data Hints at Caution for High End Displays

by Omid Rahmat

Data from A global study of consumer behaviors in the smartphone market shows that Apple’s brand remains almost unassailable worldwide. However, in the study’s timeframe, September to December of 2022, there is also an …

Tags:Android| Apple| Google| ioS

Is Apple Reducing the Role of Industrial Design?

by Omid Rahmat

Bloomberg is reporting on changes at Apple’s with the departure of Evans Hankey, the company’s VP of industrial design, who will not be replaced. Instead, the company’s core group of about 20 industrial designers …

Tags:Apple| Manufacturing

Osram Gets the Better of Apple Adopting MicroLEDs

by Omid Rahmat

Whether Micro LED is incorporated into smartwatches, AR headsets, or smartphones, two major factors will determine the market competitiveness of this technology. The first factor involves lowering the costs of Micro LED chips. A …