Apple Turns to Samsung Display to Help Ease iPad Mini Shortages?

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Posted November 1, 2013 at 5:24pm by iClarified

Apple is turning to Samsung Display to help ease supply issues with the upcoming Retina Display iPad mini, according to a Nikkei report relayed by CNET.

LG Display and Sharp are both suppliers for the new display panel; however, Sharp is said to be suffering with low yields and even LG is "not close to full production."

As a result, Apple is reportedly turning to Samsung. However, Samsung won't be able to deliver at high volumes until well into next year, says the report. The severe shortages are described as 'more than Apple bargained for.'

Apple CEO Tim Cook said "it's unclear whether we'll have enough for the quarter or not" during the company's quarterly earnings call.

It's currently rumored that the new iPad mini will go on sale November 21st.

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tim n - November 4, 2013 at 4:08pm

Also people when apple and rockstar bought the patents for 4.5 billon they bought just that the bankruptcy court sold everythinglot by lot to try to get as much as they could another cocompany could have easily bought technology from Nortel and strip it down to bare bones make something else and call it their own so enough of this apple samsung crap they are both reaping the benifits of a defunct company in the future we will see Microsoft do the same with Nokia and who ever buys BlackBerry and guts it thanks guys and gals for letting me post on your forum tim a gs3 owner for now

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tim n - November 4, 2013 at 4:20am

You cannot be serious ios 7 is equal to android ics to android users obsolete os and apple would be nothing without Nortel patents so who is using whose technology all smartphone users should be thankful for Nortel's groundbreaking work

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Alejandro Iván - November 4, 2013 at 3:51am

I'd say it's exactly the opposite. iDevices are nothing more than Samsung branded/Apple designed components.

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Fukran John - November 3, 2013 at 2:35am

Apple can't live without Samsung and that's the fact. Truth always remains and comes out often. Can't help it. Apple is just nothing without these companies especially Samsung. Hats off to Samsung for supporting apple even if they are rivals in business. That's what we call business and true sprit. HATS OFF

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Nitro Junkie - November 2, 2013 at 5:29am

Ain't that the truth.

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Nitro Junkie - November 2, 2013 at 2:16am

Without Apple, Samsung wouldn't be as big as they are. Alot of samsungs overall profits come from apple. And if wanted too, like they already have, they could easily drop Samsung as a supplier and find someone else. I've seen your previous comments in other articles. I'd say you need to get your facts straight. Why didn't Samsung sell the amount of phones they did? Because they sell 60 different models. They sold around 100-120 million not your so called 250. The funny thing is apple only sells 3 models and still made more than Samsung,Motorola,Lenovo,Nokia,Huawei and LG Combined this past quarter.

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odedoo1 - November 3, 2013 at 1:17am

I'm all the way Apple but do you really think that Samsung needs Apple? Samsung is a huge company not just cell phones they make TV's refrigerators, washing machines and any other appliance you can think of, so if you look at the whole picture Apple is tiny compare to Samsung!!!

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tim n - November 2, 2013 at 2:02am

Don't understand take what

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Nitro Junkie - November 2, 2013 at 1:50am

Delusion is iClarifieds legendary Steve God. He thinks he's helping things by posting his mind boggling gibberish posts. Think he means well by "telling the truth" but probably doesn't realize the way he talks to people in his posts is just as bad as the trolls that come here. The only good thing about his posts are that they'll give you a good laugh.

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tim n - November 2, 2013 at 1:04am

Guys I just wanted to see what your site was like i respect loyalty to your product iam a android user what I don't understand is the hostility yours has merit so does mine have gs3 just wish we could get along I learned that if you don't educate yourself about all products you become a bad consumer keeping my options open for next phone thanks tim

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THui - November 1, 2013 at 11:23pm

I have a question: why can't everybody just get along and stop calling each other names. It makes the world so much better.

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Bigdik - November 1, 2013 at 10:16pm

Apple always come back to big daddy samsung to save their ass

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