Apple iTV to be an OLED TV?
Apple has hired a former senior researcher from LG Display with experience working on OLED TV, adding another twist to the much-rumoured Apple iTV.
It was, unsurprisingly, confirmed that Apple was looking at the idea of a TV at the back end of last year, and the latest news suggests it might just be an OLED.
Apple has hired the services of Dr. Lee Jeung-jil, formerly at LG Display and also involved with the P-OLED research at Cambridge Display Technology.
Apple was also recently granted a whole host of patents, which included one centred around manipulating a touchscreen OLED device.
Specifically Apple has invented "a method of patterning thin film glass on a glass substrate with an uneven surface", reports Patently Apple.
Previous speculation has suggested an Apple iTV would come packing Apple’s Siri technology, which would allow users to control the majority of functions simply by giving it commands.
More pie in the sky or will Apple release an all-action, touchscreen OLED Apple iTV in 2013? We shall see...
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I doubt very much they'll be able to call it an itv, and doubt they'd want to. ITV digital is hardly a great association for people to draw.
''Apple cannot possibly compete with Samsung. The end.''
Sure it can.
They said Apple could never compete with Erickson and other cellphone moguls.
They said Apple could not compete with Microsoft as a mainstream computer.
Saying it cannot compete with Samsunf for a slice of the market shows marketing and engineering ignorance at best.
Re-vist this thread in 24 months an learn the lesson !
To true FunkyMonkey, Samsung makes pretty much everything electrical including parts for other companys and Apple does not.
Samsung pretty much just makes electrical goods, Apple makes a selection Electrical goods and software that is closely intergrated to each other.
The only things really that connects the two company's at the moment is they both produce phones, tablets and monitors
I cannot really see how a over blown Apple TV would be successful at the moment and how an OLED TV would benefit from downloaded movies, if you said maybe a 40" LED TV that was priced at an affordable but higher end of the market say £1000 to £1400 with AppleTV & Siri built in it would be more believable.
They won't be competing with Samsung. They will be competing with B&O, Loewe etc.
Yes, because in no way do they have any experience in creating technology, marketing etc etc. Let's not be so blinkered please.
Apple cannot possibly compete with Samsung. The end.