On 15/10/2015 03:25 PM, scott wrote:
> In my old job we used to develop displays for Nokia (back when they were
> #1)

o_O

They aren't still?!

Oh... Right... I keep forgetting the iPhone.

> The way it worked is
> that you "sold" your capability to one of the platform display teams
> within Nokia, they then marketed it on your behalf to the rest of the
> business that was actually developing the handsets.

Wow. That sounds crazy. They had an entire department who's only purpose 
was to evangelise stuff to the departments who actually make stuff?

> Things like touch screens and
> ultra high ppi screens started off in these meetings, but they were
> convinced there was no need for these and instead concentrated on trying
> to push OLED displays. Then Apple brought out the iPhone...

Heh. When one company can actually change the direction of an entire 
industry. Or create a whole new one. Like the Raspberry Pi seems to have 
done...

Whatever happened to OLED anyway? And flexible displays? The world seems 
to have stopped caring...

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