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Apple VR headset may use fluid-filled lenses to counter a user’s bad eyesight.

by Bob Raikes

What They Say AppleInsider reported on a patent from Apple for an optical system for a VR headset that uses fluid-filled lenses to accomodate the eyesight of different users. In the patent titled “Electronic …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Optics| Virtual Reality

Apple Preps Next Mac Chips With Aim to Outclass Top-End PCs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Bloomberg reports that Apple wants to push on with its own processors and is developing new chips that are intended to significantly outperform high end Intel-based systems. The new chips, expected …

Tags:Apple| Arm| CPUs| GPUs

Analyst Points to Big MiniLED Push by Apple

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes that as part of Apple’s miniLED push, the company will release a pair of new MacBook Pro models in 2021 with the technology — and a …

Tags:Apple| MiniLED| Notebooks

Links for the Week

by Bob Raikes

Here are some links for the week that might be interesting, but do not need much of a comment Global semiconductor sales grow in October, says SIA Smartphone OLED prices to drop from oversupply: …

Warranty Week on High Tech

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Warranty Week did its annual round-up of warranty provision and finance in the US high-tech industries. The blog highlights the differences between 2020 and the pattern in 2008/9 and comes to …

Tags:Apple| warranty

Future MacBook Pros could add Force Touch to the Touch Bar

by Bob Raikes

What They Say TechRadar reported, based on information from Patently Apple, that Apple has a new patent that covers adding Force Touch to the Touch Bar used on the Mac Book Pro. The force-sensing …

Tags:Apple| Notebooks| Touch Interfaces

M1 MacBook Teardowns: Something Old, Something New

by Bob Raikes

What They Say iFixit tore down the new MacBooks based on the in-house M1 processor and found the design is very similar to previous models (especially the Pro), with the main change being in …

Tags:Apple| Notebooks

Apple, Xiaomi, and OPPO Outperformed the Smartphone Market in Western Europe in Q3 2020, Say IDC

by Artem Alekseenko

The smartphone market in Western Europe continued to be impacted by lockdowns in the third quarter of 2020, as shipments declined 6.5% year over year to 28.8 million units, according to data from International …

Apple May be Genuinely Disruptive. Again

by Bob Raikes

When I did a search of the Display Daily website for the term ‘Disruptive’, there were 166 articles identified. However, looking through them, I had to go back to a Display Daily I wrote …

Tags:Apple| PCs| Semiconductors

Apple aims to adopt tandem OLEDs in its next iPad Pro tablets

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that Apple would like to adopt OLED for its iPad Pro tablets next year, but has asked LG Display and Samsung Display to develop tandem OLEDs, with a …

Tags:Apple| LG Displays (LGD)| OLEDs| Samsung Display

iPhone 12 Pro Max OLED Display Technology Shoot-Out

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Ray Soneira has published his in-depth review of the iPhone 12 Pro Max display and found it to be at the leading edge of OLED (and other) smartphones. As usual, he …

Tags:Apple| iPhone| Measurement| OLEDs| Smartphones