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Apple Warranty Costs Drop

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple’s warranty claims rate has dropped from 2.2% a year ago, to 1.2% ($1.26 billion) for the first half of 2020. What We Think Somebody in Apple’s engineering division should get …

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Apple Is Evaluating Scratch-Resistant Diamond Like Coatings On Gorilla Glass

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A semiconductor market analyst on the Seeking Alpha website has said that Apple is testing Diamond-like Coatings (DLC) as a possible enhancement to Gorilla Glass Victus (the 7th generation of Gorilla …

Tags:Apple| Corning| Glass| Smartphones

Excitement Growing in Flexible Smartphones

by Bob Raikes

Earlier this week, I was corresponding with Ross Young about the release of his firm’s latest forecast on the foldable smartphone market (more than $100 billion by 2025) and he commented on the excitement …

Three top Apple suppliers to commit $900 million to India smartphone incentive plan – sources

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Reuters reported that Foxconn, Wistron and Pegatron all plan to take advantage of a production-linked plan in India to build factories in the country. The investments could total $900 million. Foxconn …

Tags:Apple| Foxconn (Honhai)| India| Manufacturing| ODMs & OEMs

Osram Opto reportedly to become mini LED supplier for Apple

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes, quoting ‘industry sources’ said that Osram will be a supplier of miniLEDs for Apple’s MacBook. It also said that Apple will have an iPad Pro with 10,000 LEDs early in …

Tags:Apple| MiniLED| Osram

LG Display to invest in OLED line for Apple in Q1

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that LG is going to make extra investments at its Paju facility to build a new line, E6-3, to make G6 substrates (1500 x 1850mm) to support supply …

Apple has sold more than 500 million iPads in 10 years, CEO says

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has said that Apple has now sold 500 million iPads in the last ten years, and that half of iPad buyers are currently buying their first iPad. …

Tags:Apple| iPad| tablets

BOE Reattempts to Supply OLED to Apple

by Bob Raikes

What They Say BOE is expected to try again to become a qualified supplier of OLED panels for fitting to refurbished iPhone 12s. The company tried to supply originally from its B11 fab but …

Tags:Apple| BOE| Flexible Displays| OLEDs| Small & Medium Displays

Here’s everything Apple revealed at its September hardware event

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple held its ‘traditional’ September event to release new products, but didn’t announce any new iPhones, apparently because of Covid-related development and supply chain delays. It announced a new Apple Watch, …

Tags:Apple| iPad| Smartwatches| tablets

Covid-19 and Touchless Touch

by Bob Raikes

Whenever there is a change in the world, some companies will try to ‘catch the wave’ to make the most of the particular circumstances, while others will tend to follow on their own way. …

Tags:Apple| Gesture Recognition| Haptics| Touch Market| Touchless Touch

Impact of Apple and Samsung on the Display Industry

by Ian Hendy

For observers of the display industry over a long horizon, it is pretty clear that Apple and Samsung have had a major impact on innovation and the introduction of new technologies. From the first …

Tags:Apple| LTPS TFT| R&D (Research & Development)| Samsung

Starting Today, Samsung Brings Apple Music to its Smart TVs

by Artem Alekseenko

Samsung Electronics announced that beginning today, it is the first TV brand to integrate Apple Music on its Smart TV platform. Consumers in over 100 countries will now be able to enjoy Apple Music …

Tags:Apple| Samsung| Smart TV