Why Apple Didn't Usher in the Era of the Sapphire Crystal Display Screen

Apple’s iPhone 6 and 6 Plus are two powerful, elegant and now multi-million-unit selling devices that are anything but disappointing. Yet they did manage to disappoint a contingent of iPhone watchers who believed the latest Apple mobile phones displays would include a material with near-mythic qualities: sapphire crystal.

In a YouTube video that has since been widely shared, Marques Brownlee claimed to have an iPhone 6 prototype and demonstrated the properties of what he thought was its sapphire crystal display cover. As he bent, stabbed and scratched the paper-thin display, Brownlee accurately noted that the home button and iSight camera lens cover in the iPhone 5S contain sapphire crystal (and now, we know the home button and iSight camera lens cover in the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus do, too). Read more...

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