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Apple Will be World’s Top OLED Customer

by Tom Allen

UBI Research has predicted that Apple will become the world’s largest OLED customer. UBI president Lee Choong-hoon expects a new curved-screen iPhone to take a 30% iPhone market share in 2018, rising to 80% …

Apple’s Face Off with China

by Steve Sechrist

In the great scheme of things, Apple was banking on the tried and true iPhone cash cow to dominate the world’s number two market for wireless devices, China. But things didn’t work out that …

Apple Beats Microsoft in Detachables

by Tom Allen

The global tablet market fell almost 15% YoY in Q1’16. A combination of the traditional low first quarter and a lack of consumer interest conspired to bring shipments down to 39.6 million units, says …

A New O-Leap for OLED

by Ken Werner

Information Display Magazine‘s Jay Morreale loves to repeat the old bromide, “Even a broken clock is right twice a day.” In that spirit, even an Apple rumor that has proved to be wrong for …

Samsung Will be Apple’s Sole OLED Supplier – At First

by Tom Allen

We have covered the ‘OLED iPhone’ rumour several times in recent months, and now Bloomberg is back with new claims about Samsung’s links to Apple. According to sources, Samsung will be the exclusive supplier …

Apple’s 13-Year Growth Grinds to a Halt

by Tom Allen

Apple reported Q2’16 net profit of $10.5 billion, down 23% YoY from $13.6 billion. Turnover was $50.6 billion, down 13% YoY from $58 billion. The company experienced the first ever decline in iPhone sales …

Apple Cuts Production on Low Demand

by Tom Allen

Japan’s Nikkei newspaper says that Apple has cut iPhone production, due to weak sales of the flagship iPhone 6S/6S Plus and rising inventory levels. 6S production was apparently reduced by 30% in calendar Q1’16. …

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Yonhap Puts Figure on Apple-Samsung Rumour

by Tom Allen

Rumours continue to circulate of Samsung Display supplying AMOLED screens to Apple for the next iPhone. Yonhap News has now put a number on rumour. According to the source, SDC will supply 100 million …

OLED Suppliers Seeking New Opportunities with Apple Watch

by Sweta Dash

With Apple’s star power, smartwatch markers were hoping to move the market from niche to mainstream after the first shipment of the Apple Watch in April 2015. OLED suppliers were also hoping the Apple …

PC Decline at Worst Point in Nine Years

by Tom Allen

Global PC shipments fell 9.6% YoY in Q1’16 – the sixth consecutive quarter of declines. Shipments reached 64.8 million units: the first time that they have fallen below 65 million since 2007, says Gartner. …

New iPad Pro 9.7 “Best Performing LCD Display”

by Steve Sechrist

Along with full support for not only sRGB/Rec.709 but the latest the DCI-P3 color gamut (used in DCI Digital Cinema) Dr. Ray Soneira’s latest DisplayMate shoot-out proclaims Apple’s new iPad Pro 9.7 as “by …

Apple Moves Touch On with Pressure

by Phillip Wright

With the introduction of the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, Apple has provided users with a force sensing touch user interface enabling new input modalities that also incorporate haptic feedback. I recently briefly assessed …

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