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Samsung Buys Sony's Stake In LCD Joint Venture
First time accepted submitter rtoz writes "Samsung Electronics has decided to buy out Sony's entire stake in their Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) joint venture. S-LCD Samsung will pay Sony 1.08 trillion won ($939m; £600m) in cash for Sony's entire stake (50% – 1 shares) in S-LCD Corp., a venture formed in 2004 to make TV panels. After acquisition, Samsung Electronics' stake in S-LCD will be 100%. The move comes as Sony has been restructuring its TV business, which has been making a loss for the past seven years."
Maybe you haven't heard. Screens aren't trendy any longer. They're not cool. They're not hip. They're obsolete.
Just look at an average smart phone today. Look how much space is taken up by the screen. That's wasteful. That needs to go!
The next generation of smart phones will be so much more trendy, hip and cool. They won't have screens at all.
Since Apple's always ahead of the game, I think they'll be the first to market. The phone will be just big enough to have an Apple logo stuck on the back. Yeah, you can't use it to make calls, or play games, or send text messages. But that doesn't matter. It has an Apple logo on it. That's all you need to know before you'll throw down a few hundred bucks for it.