What are the competitors in the sapphire display?
There are a number of manufacturers through its "glass" display to compete for smart phones and tablet PC display market. The most familiar is Corning and its products gorilla glass. Corning's third-generation gorilla glass appears in many smartphone displays, including the Samsung Galaxy S4, which not only improves the impact resistance and scratch resistance of the display, but also reduces the thickness of the display The Japan's Asahi Glass's Dragontai glass also features similar to gorilla glass and is currently used in the Sony Xperia Z1 and Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphones.However, sapphire compared to the above two kinds of glass hardness is greater, more resistant to scratch, but its impact resistance and resistance to fracturing as the above two kinds of glass. On the current sapphire structure, it can not be reduced to the same thickness of glass, so the sapphire display thickness is relatively high. It is unclear whether Apple has developed a way to make thinner, harder sapphire displays.
