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Re:About Our Galaxy Fold Teardown by AsyncAwait on Friday April 26, 2019 @08:21AM (#19756666)
Apple doesn't do the sort of in depth R&D into things like displays that Samsung does. They do it with their A series chips, but for displays, modems etc. they source from the likes of Samsung etc.
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Re:About Our Galaxy Fold Teardown by joezydeco on Friday April 26, 2019 @08:59AM (#19756955)
You sure about that?

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2018/03/19/apple-mi...

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Re:About Our Galaxy Fold Teardown by AsyncAwait on Friday April 26, 2019 @10:41AM (#19758011)
Yes, am sure, they may have future plans to develop something in house, but I was talking about what's going on currently. I mean they probably have a lot of plans; develop their own modem, switch Macs to ARM etc. but that's not the reality on the ground at the moment.

Also, there's a lot of display tech that Samsung has, so Apple would either have to license these, driving the component cost higher, or work around them, which seems quite difficult.

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