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Title: Why sapphire iPhone screens could be Apple's next big thing Post by: HCK on July 29, 2014, 09:00:15 pm Why sapphire iPhone screens could be Apple's next big thing
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Many years ago, when Apple’s idea of a smartphone was the Rokr (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Rokr) and the company wasn’t yet racking in billions of dollars by the bucketful, a friend of mine came to me with a rather unique problem: The plastic screen of his iPod classic—back then, still just “an iPod”—had melted.</p><p> A few pointed questions revealed that this was actually my friend’s second iPod; having grown frustrated with the scratches on the front plate of his first unit, he decided to pawn the latter off to his teenage daughter, buy a new one, and use a bit of clear packing tap as a makeshift cover to protect the music player’s screen from being damaged.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2456109/from-plastic-to-gemstones-how-apples-screens-have-evolved.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Why sapphire iPhone screens could be Apple's next big thing (http://www.macworld.com/article/2456109/from-plastic-to-gemstones-how-apples-screens-have-evolved.html#tk.rss_all) |