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that sounds like a really exciting direction. can't wait for the retina display to catch on in other tablets.
by zem 15y ago
that sounds like a really exciting direction. can't wait for the retina display to catch on in other tablets.
- philwelch 15y agoWhy do I have the odd feeling that Apple has cornered the market on retina displays?
- Jimmie 15y agoBecause that's what happened. They've bought up all the current stock afaik. The other tablet makers will be behind the curve by at least 6 months, maybe a year.
- wmf 15y agoIt wouldn't surprise me, but in that case competitors have no one but themselves to blame. They've known a retina iPad was coming since June 2010, so they should have booked capacity then.
- philwelch 15y agoApple's procurement is far beyond "booking capacity". They effectively provide the economy-of-scale for something like an iPad retina display to be economically produced in the first place. No one else has that kind of power.
- wmf 15y agoSo you're saying Apple can order millions of retinas from Samsung, but Samsung cannot order millions from themselves? Like I said, if they're not willing to take the financial risk (as HP did with the TouchPad, for example) then they deserve what they get.
- philwelch 15y agoIt goes something like this--Samsung can't ship enough units by itself to justify setting up production, but Apple can. So Apple preorders an entire production run, and since Apple's already spoken for all the displays they can produce, Samsung doesn't get any. Samsung could take the risk, but then they'd have an entire production run of Samsung tablets that no one wants to buy and they will have wasted their entire capital investment.