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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On 10/15/2015 6:44 PM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> Whatever happened to OLED anyway? And flexible displays? The world seems
> to have stopped caring...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLED#Manufacturers_and_commercial_uses

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Regards
     Stephen

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On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 18:44:33 +0100, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:

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

OLED is still around, and I see things about flexible displays every once 
in a while.

Jim



-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
.......
>
>>> 8. Qualcomm manufactured my lawn mower. They make silicon too? WTF?
>>
>> I didn't know they made lawn mowers.
>
> I didn't know they made anything else. As in, I'd never heard of them
> before I saw this lawnmower. And it was the cheapest, lowest quality one
> in the shop.

When I realized that I absolutely couldn't stand it any longer, I went 
to Google, put in "lawn mower," and very slowly started typing:

q [pause]
u [pause]
a [pause]
l [pause]
c [pause]

and finally this came up as a suggestion:

http://www.homebase.co.uk/en/static/qualcast

Now I can sleep tonight.

--Sherry Shaw

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On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 19:06:30 +0200, Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>>> 8. Qualcomm manufactured my lawn mower. They make silicon too? WTF?
>>
>> I didn't know they made lawn mowers.
>
> I didn't know they made anything else. As in, I'd never heard of them  
> before I saw this lawnmower. And it was the cheapest, lowest quality one  
> in the shop.

Qualcomm, not Qualcast.

You are obviously not into cellphone specs. Until recently most  
smart-phones used Qualcomm processors.

-- 
-Nekar Xenos-

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Am 15.10.2015 um 16:17 schrieb Patrick Elliott:

> I would also
> argue that we suffer a lot from the delusional, "I am making huge
> profits at this price point, so I can't imagine why people complain its
> too expensive!", one as well, in far too many companies - all of which
> presume that, as long as they are making a profit, they *have* the right
> price point.

It's not delusional at all. It's us consumers who are delusional if we
think just complaining about something being too expensive has any
effect on price tags. It's only when we cease to /buy/ stuff that we'll
see an effect.

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Am 15.10.2015 um 16:25 schrieb scott:

> In my old job we used to develop displays for Nokia (back when they were
> #1)

So we may have been colleagues in a sense, for some time. I did work for
Nokia on handsfree kits and headsets in the mid-00s.

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Am 15.10.2015 um 19:44 schrieb Orchid Win7 v1:
> 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.

... and Samsung and LG and whatnot.

And the fact that they sold their mobile phone business to Microsoft
last year.

So no, they aren't any longer.

>> 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?

Not really. The evangelizing was only a side effect of Nokia having had
multiple teams doing similar stuff (like the "platform display teams"
scott mentioned), so there was quite some competition going on within Nokia.

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

Or maybe /you/ have stopped caring for a while?

OLED technology has been alive and roundhouse-kicking in the realm of
small displays since you last looked. Oculus uses OLED technology since
DK2 of their Rift, for instance.

As for flexible displays, I think people have found little real use for
them so far, except from gimmicks like the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge.

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Am 16.10.2015 um 03:26 schrieb Sherry K. Shaw:
> Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> .......
>>
>>>> 8. Qualcomm manufactured my lawn mower. They make silicon too? WTF?
>>>
>>> I didn't know they made lawn mowers.
>>
>> I didn't know they made anything else. As in, I'd never heard of them
>> before I saw this lawnmower. And it was the cheapest, lowest quality one
>> in the shop.
> 
> When I realized that I absolutely couldn't stand it any longer, I went
> to Google, put in "lawn mower," and very slowly started typing:
> 
> q [pause]
> u [pause]
> a [pause]
> l [pause]
> c [pause]
> 
> and finally this came up as a suggestion:
> 
> http://www.homebase.co.uk/en/static/qualcast
> 
> Now I can sleep tonight.

Thanks Sherry - that makes a lot more sense.

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On 16/10/2015 08:23 AM, clipka wrote:
> Am 15.10.2015 um 19:44 schrieb Orchid Win7 v1:
>> 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.
>
> ... and Samsung and LG and whatnot.
>
> And the fact that they sold their mobile phone business to Microsoft
> last year.
>
> So no, they aren't any longer.

I've had a couple of mobile phones. And I quickly discovered that all 
the phones that aren't Nokia are terrible.

Like, at one point I had a Motorola phone, and when you compose a text 
message, if you hit the menu key, the first menu option is... 
reconfigure the text size? WTF? You're going to set that how you want it 
*once*, when you get the phone, and then never change it again! On the 
other hand, "send" was the 7th option. You have to scroll to the next 
page to even see it. Again, WTF?

Back then, it seemed that only Nokia phones have software that even 
remotely makes any semblance of sense. Today, I guess all phones run 
Andriod, and are thus identical in every respect... (The odd one out 
being the iPhone, of course.)

> As for flexible displays, I think people have found little real use for
> them so far, except from gimmicks like the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge.

Yeah, the idea of a flexible display *sounds* really cool, but... what 
the hell would that even be *useful* for? The only thing I can think of 
is that it takes up much less space when you fold it up. But surely 
that's going to damage it?

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