What’s going on?
The entire iPad line has gone formore than a year without any updates.
Now, these new modelswon’t arrive until at least May.
Person silhouetted in front of a screen with giant pixels.Y K / Unsplash
It’s probably the OLED screens, which are, apparently, really hard to make.
“According to reports, this is because Samsung finds it difficult to produce these OLEDs.
Screen Time
We’ve heard plenty about the as-yet-unannounced new iPads.
12.9-inch M2 iPad Pro.Lifewire / Jerri Ledford
OLED is fundamentally different from other kinds of screen display tech.
Most laptop and tablet screens consist of a bright backlight with a grid of LCD pixels in front.
This is why the screen never really looks black.
This iswhat the 12.9-inch iPad Pro currently uses, as does the MacBook Pro.
The classic example is stars on a black sky.
Because the backlight is bigger than the pinprick star, the backlight bleeds through.
This offers amazing colors and contrast because you might completely control brightness on a pixel-by-pixel basis.
If something is black, you switch off the pixel entirely.
But this cutting-edge tech seems to be proving harder to make than predicted, for Samsung at least.
“This is the first time Samsung is making such OLEDs, and their yields are low.
So it’ll take some time.
LGD is already making such panels for the automotive market so they have more experience.”
Only when in a completely dark room do I really notice the backlight bleed.
OLED is perfect for horror movies!”
says iPad and MacBook userFuzzball84ina forum threadparticipated in by Lifewire.
