When Apple and GT Technologies first struck a deal for GT to produce sapphire for Apple’s products, GT announced the deal with excitement. Now that GT has filed for bankruptcy, the company is painting the deal in very a different light. GT COO David Squiller condemned Apple for pulling a…
Apple is ordinarily hush hush about its deals with suppliers. But a court filing with GT Advanced, the company that was supposed to supply the Apple Watch’s sapphire screens, reveals that Apple would inflict a $US50 million penalty for any leak of clandestine product info. Ouch.
The New York Times just published a very authoritative and fairly exciting report on what Apple will be announcing next week. You guessed it: two new iPhones with larger screen sizes and a wearable computer (a.k.a. an iWatch). But there are plenty of details we hadn’t heard yet.