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Mid-Size Macbook Held Back by Low Yields

by Super User

A 12″ Macbook Air is being produced, in low quantities, by Quanta Computer, say Asian sources. Output is scheduled to increase beginning next month. The product is said to have a touchscreen and has …

Rumour: Apple to Invest in OLED for Tablets

by Super User

Sources in Asia claim that JOLED (JDI + Sony + Panasonic) Display Monitor Vol 21 No 30) is to begin trial production of 10″ and 12″ OLED panels by 2016, in addition to the …

iPhone Priority Pushes Back iPad Pro

by Super User

The Wall Street Journal says that production of Apple’s 12.9″ iPad Pro has been delayed. Difficulties producing enough new iPhones to meet demand will apparently delay the tablet. Mass-production was scheduled for December (Bloomberg …

Air 2 Rumours Begin to Break

by Super User

Taiwan’s Commercial Times claims that the iPad Air 2 will be launched in October. A second-generation iPad Mini with Retina Display may also arrive in early 2015, followed by the (long-rumoured) 12.9″ iPad Pro …

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Smaller iPhone Outsells Larger Cousin

by Super User

Statistics from mobile analytics firm Mixpanel show that around 20% of iPhone 6 handsets sold are iPhone 6 Plus models. In total terms, the 4.7″ iPhone 6 represents just over 6% of all iPhones …

Gartner: Apple Watch to Propel Smartwatch Growth

by Super User

The Apple Watch will drive increased adoption of smartwatches, Gartner believes. The space is growing rapidly, with 7/10 of the top smartphone vendors now operating in it, compared to 2 last year. By 2015, …

iPad Delayed by iPhone Demand

by Super User

The iPad Pro, a rumoured 12.9″ device that was reported on last year (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 31) and appeared again recently on Bloomberg (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 34), will be delayed …

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Chaebols in the Matrix

by Raverstead

Looking back on the year, the big trend has been the increasing dominance of the 2 x 2 matrix of Apple and Samsung, phones and tablets. If you don’t fit one of the four …

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Apple’s challenge to monitor makers

by Bob Raikes

SID this year saw some really interesting innovations and developments in resolution and in OLED development and also in autostereoscopic S3D. One which stood out was the new 5 megapixel Retina display on the …

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Intimations of Mortality

by Bob Raikes

This week has been one for me of ‘intimations of mortality’, to slightly mis-quote Wordsworth. From the news last weekend that a friend and industry colleague has been diagnosed with cancer, through to the …

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Apple and the iCloud

by Bob Raikes

I said a while ago that the days when a significant electronics category can be launched without an ‘ecosystem’ look numbered. The master of building an ecosystem to exploit and develop hardware has probably …

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Apple TV?

by Bob Raikes

This is an editorial that I wrote in Display Monitor in March 2010. Most of what I said still seems relevant today!Bob Once again, rumours of a possible move by Apple into the …