Last week I told you that The iPhone 7S will have an OLED screen curved towards the edges, the Apple company practically copying a feature made popular by the Samsung company by launching the Galaxy Edge series of smartphones.
Apple is taking advantage of the interest shown by users towards this type of smartphone with screens curved towards the outer edges of the case, and the OLED screen curved towards the edges of the iPhone 7S it is going to be produced by the Samsung company itself, the one that made it popular.
According to some analysts who spoke with Samsung representatives, the Apple company would have awarded the Koreans a contract to produce all the curved OLED screens for the iPhone 7S, so basically Samsung will manufacture the component that copies its smartphones.
The irony is as obvious as it can be, and now the wheel is turning and Samsung will contribute to the launch of an iPhone 7S that copies one of the most popular functions of the terminals in the Galaxy series, the situation itself being hard to imagine last year.
UBS analyst, Nicolas Gaudois was in Korea last week visiting OLED and Display supply chain companies. It is now clear that 100% of the edge OLED display supply for the first iPhone adopting it in 2H17 will be from Samsung. LGD has been slower in qualifying. The analyst sees evidence that it remains a potential second source supplier for '18.
Separately from Samsung, for the curved OLED screen of the iPhone 7S, Apple also considered LG Display as a possible manufacturer, but Samsung's rivals do not have a good enough production capacity to meet all the requirements of those from Apple.
In conclusion, many of you will probably laugh when you see that Apple is using Samsung to copy a concept of Samsung smartphones, but I think that the situation is as appropriate and correct as possible for what Samsung has done in recent years , not?
