@siracusa LIstening to this weeks show about the rounded corner of the OLED screen. Is it possible Apple is doing this in part to increase manufacturing yield on the screens? My understanding is that bad pixels found during manufacturing are significantly more likely to occur near the edges and corners. With the rounding they can now accept screens with bad pixels in the corner that would have previously been rejected. Just a thought.
thread
@krelnik My guess is that the display panels don’t have any pixels in those corners, so the new “corners” are the rounded ones, which only moves the defect problem to a new location.
@krelnik But even setting that aside, my answer is still no. Apple makes yields the panel manufacturer’s problem. And unlike RAM and SSDs, Apple still has its usual negotiating leverage for screens.