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Samsung To Cut OLED Production Due To Poor iPhone X Sales
Samsung's panel-making division, Samsung Display, is reportedly reducing OLED panel production at its South Chungcheong plant due to lower than expected iPhone X sales. According to Nikkei Asian Review, Samsung now plans to cover 20 million or fewer iPhone X devices for the quarter ending in March, a large decrease from the expected 45 to 50 million units. CNET reports: Apple sold 77.3 million iPhones in the quarter ending in January, down by 1 percent on the previous year. The $1,000 price tag on the iPhone X was blamed for the volume shortfall -- but also contributed to the company making record-breaking profits. Samsung did not respond to CNET's request for comment.
Samsung cut production because they couldn't get contracts from Chinese vendors.
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2018/02/apples-iphone-x-is-the-instant-scapegoat-for-samsungs-failure-to-win-oled-orders-from-chinese-vendors.html
"iPhone X was the best selling smartphone in the world in the December quarter"
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2018/02/apples-iphone-x-is-the-instant-scapegoat-for-samsungs-failure-to-win-oled-orders-from-chinese-vendors.html
Personally, I don't want a thousand dollar phone because how I would feel when I break it. It's not that I would not like the phone and I don't even see it as over priced.
Why isn't it overpriced? How many things do you hold in your hand and look at 50 times a day? comething that tactile and consuming of your senses, intellect, time and lifestyle is something you should be getting the best possible tool for. It's not a place to economize. You can get a cheaper phone but saving yourself 25 cents a day for a phone that is a little less enjoyable is just illogical provided you can afford the extra 25 cents a day.
I'd just be so pissed off if I broke it. Having done that with other phones this is not a low probability. SO I deny myself the pleasure to avoid the pain I know I'd eventually experience.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
True. But most people don't. I just want a phone I can use for a phone stuff and a few apps. However it does need to have long battery life so it can still run for a full day after I've had it for a year or two so I'm not forced to replace it.
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Angreed.
I'd love a phone with edge to edge display, except for the bottom, I tested one, impossible to one handed type.
Ideally, I'd have a 5-5.25 inch phone, half in lower bezel, and a centered keyboard that isn't edge to edge.
Not sexy in the store though I guess.
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A story out of Japan on Friday stated that "Other smartphone makers, who Samsung had hoped would incorporate OLED panels, have been slow to make the transition due to their expense and are sticking to liquid crystal displays."" Apparently that reality doesn't sell stories, so the Nikkei Asian Review decided to just throw in Apple as being Samsung's problem to make the story a mover.
Smartphone sales fell in China overall in Q4 and yet Apple was able to buck the trend with the iPhone X being the number one smartphone around the world. In fact Kantar reported that iPhone X sales in Urban China were staggering.
During Tim Cook's summary for the holiday quarter he noted: "Our growth was broad based and a key driver was iPhone which generated it's highest revenue ever. iPhone X was the best selling smartphone in the world in the December quarter according to Canalys and it has been our best selling phone every week since it launched."
In late January Patently Apple posted a report titled "Apple to end Samsung's exclusive OLED contract and Shift to a new L-Shaped Battery with Increased Capacity." In that report we also noted that China's BOE and Sharp were vying for Apple's OLED business.
Yet despite Samsung overestimating OLED display demand, the Nikkei Asian Review's report adds: "To make matters worse, Chinese OLED panel makers are expanding production capacity, heating up the price competition even more."
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
I've got a Moto X from 2014 with a OLED display. No burn-in at all.
They burn out rather than in, AIUI, but yes. However, I’ve had an OLED screen for almost two and a half years, and frankly it’s not been a big deal for me. Never noticed it.
It would be wise to note that Nikkei Asian News is usually pretty full of sh*t when it comes to Apple’s supply chain. One might even surmise that they try to manipulate the stock.
You guys are correct and I'm wrong. I was going on a misremembered article from Feb 1. Apple barely underperformed their guidance and came in $5billion short of Wall Street expectations, which is completely different.
I apologize to one and all and especially Tim Cook.
I stand by the statement that their earnings increase is mainly a result of their sweet tax cut and also the statement that the iPhone sales number are much lower than expected.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Except we know that 1/29 story was a complete fabrication from Apple's earnings report that came out 2/1... made anyone who believed it look like a complete idiot.
Not saying that YOU are a complete idiot. No sir! *whistles and looks away*....
Yes you can spin a negative into a positive
Or lie a positive into a negative. That's the internet for you! Funny how it leaves little traps like that behind for those that don't pay attention to reality.
I mean, you'd really have to be rather "special" to post what you did after all of the other corrections already posted to the story pointing out the real reasons behind the decline being due to other smartphone makers not following Apple's lead on OLED as rapidly this time around...
t i'd prefer it that they didn't set their expectations so ridiculously high and miss them by such a large margin.
Thanks to great operational and business performance, we achieved all-time record profitability during the quarter, with EPS up 16 percent,
*whistles a little louder and stares intently*
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Here a car analogy falls short.
A car is a big experience, enveloping the whole body. There is a whole lot of room for differentiation in the experience in everything from suspension to steering to transmission, to the weight and insulation and materials.
For a slab of touchscreen, there's only so much it can really do to provide a different experience from the cheaper slab of touchscreen running the same software. While functional differences do exist, so far the major draw is to make people notice the notch and recognize you must have spent money on the fancier model. It's like a Rolex watch, a status symbol without practical justification of the cost, at least considering the availability of lower end IOS devices.
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