Apple vs. Sapphire Glass – What Happened?

Although the rumors were sure that Apple’s new flagship smartphone, the iPhone 6 will be released with a sapphire glass screen, the final product was not delivering on this “promise”. Scratched, cracked displays were a problem iPhone users had for some time, and they have complained about it as well. A sapphire glass display would have solved most of their problems – but now we’ll probably have to wait for the iPhone 7 to have this upgrade. What happened? Why did the Cupertino giant release its new phone without this long awaited feature? The answer to this question was given by Valuewalk, citing the Wall Street Journal.

Sapphire is a crystallized form of aluminium oxide – similar to “transparent aluminum” so much mentioned in some of the classic Star Trek movies. It is a very tough material – tougher than concrete, resistant to most scratches and shocks. To provide its users with sapphire screen iPhones, Apple and GT Advanced Technologies have struck a billion-dollar deal to build a sapphire factory in Arizona. Apple, as usual, has demanded the highest possible quality for the lowest possible price. The Cupertino giant first wanted the company to build it a series of furnaces that they could have used to produce their own sapphire, but later changed its mind, allowing GT Advanced Technologies to produce the material itself.

Apple was impressed by the record of the company, offering advanced optical solutions for the solar, LED and electronics industries. The problem was that the furnace built by the company was flawed, and with nothing to do, the hundreds of workers they hired to operate it had nothing to do. After repeated delays, it became clear that Apple’s sapphire project would fail, and the new iPhone has to be released without a long awaited sapphire display. The company blamed delays in building the manufacturing unit, and repeated power outages, but Apple told their creditors that it was the company’s “mismanagement” to blame – and this was the last drop that led to the bankruptcy of the company in the end.

Read the full story about how a sapphire  screen Apple iPhone 6 and 6 Plus was never meant to be here.