LG Struggling to Keep Up With iPad Display Demand
"Demand (from Apple) keeps growing and we can't meet it all. Apple may have to delay launches of the iPad for some countries due to tight component supplies and strong demand.
"We are considering increasing production lines for iPad products but overall supply is likely to remain tight until early next year."
Apple announced earlier this week that its next round of international iPad releases was set for today in nine new countries. The company also noted during its earnings conference call on Tuesday that it is selling iPads as fast as it can make them, with demand exceeding what Apple initially considered to be a "bold" assumption of one million units per month.
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This bodes well for app programmers. Hopefully we will see increasingly more capable and useful apps for the platform
Shouldn't be long until we see an iPad screen refresh anyways with the iPhone having the sweet retnia display it'd be silly for Apple to not bring this over to the already beautiful iPad display.
Dream on.
Have you actually used an iPad? Different viewing distance, different requirements.
Shouldn't be long until we see an iPad screen refresh anyways with the iPhone having the sweet retnia display it'd be silly for Apple to not bring this over to the already beautiful iPad display.
considering how the ipad screen is nearly 3 times the size of the iphone... doubtful.... Not yet. They could give the screen a slight bump, but Apple may want to limit the number or resolutions out there.
Uncle Steve doesn't like when his partners speak his business. I wonder if there will be continued gradual shift away from LG to Samsung now that LG's CEO ran off at the mouth about Apple having to delay launches.
smh :rolleyes:
Shouldn't be long until we see an iPad screen refresh anyways with the iPhone having the sweet retnia display it'd be silly for Apple to not bring this over to the already beautiful iPad display.
People seem to use the term without truly understanding what it means. It looks so real because it's hundreds of hundreds of pixels in a tiny screen. They're so close and small that it blurs the line of screen and reality. To get that ppi in the iPad, one would have to get an insane amount of pixels into the screen. Also, when viewed from far away, it wouldn't mean anything. Like 1080 TVs look like 720 when viewed from 6 feet, IIRC.
The more I use my iPhone 4, the less I like the display on my iPad.
Wow must be awesome, The more i use my ipad the less i like my 3GS :p
Shouldn't be long until we see an iPad screen refresh anyways with the iPhone having the sweet retnia display it'd be silly for Apple to not bring this over to the already beautiful iPad display.
Oh god, not this one again... Please please please can people stop banging on about this, Apple aren't bringing a 2,530 x 1,897 pixel iPad display to market anytime soon, at least not at the current price points. Hell, I'm not even sure it's practical to make a display at that size and resolution for mass production right now and then you've got to have CPU's and GPU's to drive it, not to mention a battery capable of powering it for 10 hours+. You may get away with less if you figure that the iPad is normally held further from the face than the 12 inches or so the iPhone is calculated at but even so...
Anyway, as to the topic itself, it raises another interesting question for me: If Apple have LG's stock tied up and Samsung are being brought on-line to add additional capacity how does that affect the rest of the industry as they try to launch their own tablets? The display, after all, is one of very few design elements that has an immediate impact on the user and if Apple have the high end more-or-less sewn up then that's going to make it tricky (not impossible but tricky) for others to come into that space.
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