“Apple just can’t seem to shake Samsung,” Brooke Crothers reports for CNET. “Despite the two companies’ bitter legal battles, Samsung became the largest supplier of iPad displays in the first quarter, according to DisplaySearch.”
“The market researcher said Samsung Display reclaimed its position as the top iPad display panel supplier, shipping 5.2 million units of 9.7-inch panels with a resolution of 2,048×1,536, accounting for 62 percent of total shipments of that display size and resolution,” Crothers reports. “The displays with those specifications are used by Apple for the iPad Air and iPad with Retina display.”
Crothers reports, “LG Display, also a major display supplier to Apple, saw its share of that display size/resolution plunge to 38 percent in the first quarter from about 61 percent in the fourth quarter of 2013.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Symbiotic dichotomy.