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China Targets Apple with Push into Advanced Smartphone Screens

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32 pointsJerry220 comments

Before anybody gets drawn in by the clickbait headline, the text of the article is about how China (i.e. large a Chinese vendor) is trying to win Apple's business away from Korean and Japanese vendors. So their sales teams are 'targeting' Apple, which is fine I guess, but not what most people think about when they hear that someone is targeting Apple.

Thanks for clarifying. This kind of clickbait headline should be punished somehow on HN. It distorts the facts and causes confusion and distractions.

It is the actual title of the article, but it isn’t clear what the article is about without the byline that HN doesn’t support.

Is it OK to flag clickbait?

>BOE Technology Group Co. plants already make display screens for Apple’s iPads and MacBook computers,

Now sure why they still didn't make it into the iPhone LCD supply Chain.

>“Many years ago, people were saying that no, the China guys can’t do it. But I think BOE makes a good example,”

That is me as well. Or I was more like it will take them some more time to catch up, even in an optimistic view, but they are so relentless in their R&D, they make a lot of progress that it seems now they can do the impossible. And they now likely has better OLED than LG for Smartphones.

Apple has been adopting more and more Chinese components which is slightly worrying. iPhone's Battery is from China, and they are definitely not the best in class. Some of the cover glass are from China, ( They are no all Gorilla Glass ).

It would be wise for Apple to make sure their suppliers aren’t all in one basket.

They do that for most of their parts. For example, they also source batteries from Samsung.

Isn't Apple working on new screen technology? If so then why bother corning the market on tech which may become obsolete...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-19/apple-is-...

New tech doesn't mean the old tech is obsolete. It may be great for non-top-end phones... with a huge Chinese market.

iPhones are already made in China.

Pretty soon, no more need for Apple.

When China already makes all the Apple screens, but somehow the author thinks they managed to target Apple by, erm, continuing to make them.

Apple sources displays from Samsung, I assumed Samsung built them in Korea. Does Samsung do their manufacturing in China?

OLED Screen? Zero as far as I know. Only Battery and small quantity of NAND.

Have you heard of the iPhone X? All screens were manufactured in Samsung's flexible OLED foundries

But it is not manufactured in China. Which was what I was referring to.

Samsung does own factories in China, including one factory that manufactures mobile displays.

http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/report/64

China doesn't make the Apple screens.

Samsung and Japan Display make the screens (OLED and LCD). Samsung and Japan Display != China. Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam != China. To target Apple in the sense that you're referring they'd have to go after South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam and Japan first, targeting Hitachi, Toshiba, Sony, Samsung and dozens of other companies directly or indirectly. That would draw in approximately the entire advanced electronics industry and every developed nation.

Good luck with that. China's problem these days is that several other nations in Asia are rising to replace them as legitimate options for building electronics. Vietnam is producing half of Samsung's phones for example. Most of what China does can be done somewhere else. Plenty of developing countries are eager to take on hundreds of billions of dollars in invested capital to build out their domestic manufacturing.

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