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Originally posted by BobF
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Can you imagine what would have happened if Apple had bought up the key developers of LCD panel display technology? Only Apple products would have flat screens - great for Apple no doubt, but the whole world has benefitted from the broader proliferation of flat panel displays into all sorts of fields. And how much less progress would have occurred in the tech given that Apple could have focussed firstly and mostly only on products it needed. True, Apple may have split the company and its tech off into a wholly owned subsidiary - it would have had to do so in fact - but I think we would have seen a lot slower development picture than we've had. EVERYBODY will want access to flat panel speakers for their products, from cars to medical devices to billboards.more opportunities rather than fewer. Thus I suspect that no current player is appropriate to own AP if it is already a big player in any of the prospective markets being served. It will have to be a supplier to all of those markets, and not a competitor to most of its customers. Too many licensing arrangements to negotiate! But that still leaves quite a few big players in the market.
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I'm hoping too Bob. It seems to me that a positive response from the market will be driven by rising revenue from mass production. I am keenly interested in any future news about arrangements for fab capacity to enable volume production.
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