MicroLED — How Apple Destroys OLED

OLED vs Mini LED vs MicroLED — What wins?

$2000 and the MacBook Pro doesn’t even have an OLED Display. Never mind the $1100 iPad Pro. Why? Because OLED is… hella problematic. It’s expensive, leading-edge supplies are limited, it allows for always-on but it’s prone to burn-in, smearing, and off-axis color shifting. it decays unevenly, and while it can be flexible and provides the deepest, truest blacks, it struggles with peak brightness. Like hitting that subscribe button so we can build the best community in tech… brightness.

So, what do you do? I mean, besides hitting that button and cursing in the comments. Well, if you’re Apple, you power word kill regular old LCD, just obliterate it from the premium lineup. Then you divide and conquer. Build up OLED on the smaller devices while hedging with mini-LED on the bigger ones. Then… then you make them fight it out, like Kaiju and Jaegers… or just wait for micro-LED to mature and extinction-level event both of them.

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[ReneRitchie]

🤔 Will MicroLED beat Mini LED and OLED? Or will it just get AirPower'ed?

[agmyothein]

Apple doesn’t want to use Oled, simply the cost. LG has a patented "white OLED" technology. LCDs can manufacture cheaper in American soil.

[Kiskaloo]

IMO, Samsung's new QD-OLED technology could be adopted by Apple as it could help with some of the issues with WOLED until MicroLED is ready at this level of miniaturization.

[ForeignManinaForeignLand]

Rene makes tech video titles sound like blockbusters

[terribletimes]

OLED’s brightness and burn in problems are seriously overblown. Newer OLEDs have made large strides in solving these issues. And Mini-LED’s compromises are far worse IMO. Of course you have the blooming, but you also have some absurdly awful pixel response times. This has been an issue with Apple’s LCD devices in general, but the issue is particularly pronounced in the Mini-LED devices for some reason. Getting awful motion blur due to horrible response times defeats some of the purpose of even having a 120Hz display. Meanwhile OLEDs have near instant reponse times

[nickofthyme]

Honestly, what a fantastic video!

Your expertise is crazy. Your explanations are succinct but full of depth with added background on the history of usage. Your video quality with the visuals to accompany what your are talking about is incredible. I just had to say 👏👏👏 well done! I thoroughly enjoy all of your videos.

Keep up the great work Rene!

[mr_ice]

My first oled device was the creative zen from 2006. The screen was so beautiful and i been love with oled ever since. My next oled device after that was the Samsung J3 back in 2016 and every phone i had since has been a Samsung with oled. I still have that J3 and my S8 and the colors are still as clean and beautiful as the day i bought it. Even after 5 or 6 years of use

[debendragurung]

apple this apple that so much credit to Apple.
Its not just Apple, everybody is on board with MicroLed. Its everyones next generation technology. So its not Apple destroying OLED, its MicroLED destroying OLED.

[_MrJasonW]

I was hoping you would give a detailed explanation as to why OLED can’t scale up to iPad-sized displays but it can scale up to the 65” TV hanging on my wall.

[ChristianGolca]

I love the iPhone 13 Pro Max but unfortunately I had to stop using it because the PWM used in the OLED display was giving me terrible headaches and eye strain.

[FFCJ]

I traded my 2017 iPad Pro 10.5 for a 2021 iPad Pro 12.9. It looked so good to me that springing for the 16 inch MacBook Pro was almost by reflex. They look that good. Closest thing yet to viewing a large Velvia film transparency on a light table. I’m not interested in OLEDs with their built in degradation function so my next upgrade will be from mini LED to micro LED. The future looks good.

[godsend]

Oled is a superior technology over IPS, its not dabatable, is facts.

[thebuddercweeper]

Personally I think Apple will keep refining both their mini LED and OLED displays in the devices they're in now until micro LED is ready to replace both. I can see them putting micro LED in an Apple Watch first, then waiting a couple of years before bringing it to iPhones, iPads and Macs.

[sh.]

It's strange that Apple is going to produce its new iPad with an OLED screen. Why are you applauding something you're not sure of ? 😂😂

[DedricSilva]

I hope to see Microled be available to all of us later this decade. I will definitely get it replacing my OLED in the future since it's the same thing but with no burn in.

[stachowi]

Phenominal video, this is the type of content that sets you apart IMO.

[SonicSouz]

I've always been told OLED has little to no color shifting compared to LED LCD screens for TVs. How is this different for AMOLED phone screens?

[TomTomdog]

Your so negative about Oled.
Unfortunately all the next Ipad model is being replaced my Oled screen except Ipad pro. Its signed and done so its coming. Dont cry over apple's decision

[theraphman]

René you rock your videos! I am very much enjoying all the insides about Apple. Thanks for keeping us keeping new stuff about the brand we love. Keep up the good work and good speed!

[daveh]

The move to µLED may be governed by quality demand rather than size/volume. Watch-first makes sense but iPhone-second? I would think they'd go large where the quality is needed.