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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. …

Tags:Apple| iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| Supply Chain| Vol 23 - Issue 15

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 …

Tags:Apple| iPhone| Smartphones| Touch Displays| Vol 23 - Issue 14

Happy Birthday to Apple

by Bob Raikes

I spotted last week that Apple was forty years old just a week or so ago – which took me back to my early computing days. I became a home computer enthusiast when I …

Will Apple’s Night Shift Help You to Doze Off?

by Bob Raikes

Some six weeks ago, I wrote an article for Display Daily (Are LED Backlights Dangerous?) about the issues of the impact of blue light, especially from LED light sources, on the health of users. …

Tags:Apple| Blue Light| LED| Vol 23 - Issue 12

FBI Breaks iPhone Encryption

by Tom Allen

The FBI has cracked the encryption on the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists last December, without assistance from Apple (Apple Refuses to Compromise Security). An unnamed third party – said …

Apple Has Looked at Imagination for Acquisition

by Tom Allen

UK-based Imagination Technologies is under scrutiny as a possible acquisition for Apple, which uses its PowerVR GPUs in the iPad and iPhone. Apple already owns 8.42% of the company – its third-largest shareholder – …

Apple Introduces 9.7-inch iPad Pro

by Isaac Oburu

Apple® today introduced the all-new 9.7-inch iPad Pro™ — at just under one pound it features a new pro Retina® display with greater brightness, wider color gamut, lower reflectivity, Night Shift™ mode and introduces …

Tags:Apple| iPad| tablets

Apple ‘Confirms’ SDC as Primary OLED Supplier

by Tom Allen

SDC currently produces around 9 million OLED displays per month for the Galaxy S7 EdgeKorea’s ET News claims that Apple and Samsung Display have signed an official contract, confirming SDC as the primary flexible …