Senior Vice President of the company Corning's Tony Tripeny stated, that Sapphire is not a good material for phone or tablet displays. It is also not surprising when Corning's multibillion-dollar business depends solely on what material and protection global manufacturers choose for their displays. In an interview with analyst firm Morgan Stanley, James Fawcett asked Tripeny what he thought about the Apple is building a plant in Arizona to produce sapphire glass for a secret project, as he himself stated Tim Cook.
Tripeny stated, “When we look at sapphire, we see a lot of difference compared to Gorilla Glass. It is about 10 times more expensive, it is about 1,6 times heavier and it is not ecological. It takes 100x more energy to make glass from sapphire crystal than it takes to make Corning Gorilla Glass. It transmits less light, which means the device is either harder to read or has a shorter battery life. It is also fragile. I think even though it is a scratch resistant product, it is very easy to break and our tests say that Gorilla Glass can withstand 2,5x more pressure than sapphire. So looking at this information, I don't think it's an attractive alternative to Gorilla Glass."
Tripeny believes that Apple he wants to use sapphire mainly for marketing because sapphire has a very sexy name associated with luxury. After all, you can find sapphire even in the most expensive watches for millions of crowns. Tripena currently sees no other reason, the production of sapphire takes 4000 times longer than the production of Gorilla Glass and has a significantly higher melting temperature. Its hardness presents a problem in machining.
However, it is a question to what extent only tripenes are hindering a company whose business is based precisely on the fact that manufacturers such as Apple and many others use her products and how true his words are. From the point of view of the consumer, who does not have to worry about processing costs, manufacturing costs or environmental impact while maintaining the price of the product, the fact is that sapphire is much more prone to cracking than Gorilla Glass or other materials. In practice, it is impossible to scratch it with anything other than a diamond, but on the other hand, a phone with a sapphire display that falls to the ground no longer needs to be picked up.
So absolutely useless for phones :D
they are just afraid and in my opinion unnecessarily
As if the fragility of the glass on current iPhones wasn't big enough :D
Nobody outside AppLu doesn't know what he wants. Apple use sapphire glass, so it's pointless to compare it with gorilla glass on phones. Sapphire will definitely make sense on a watch.
Speaking of which, it's almost clear that I won't find gorilla voice on my iPhone anymore :)
I think so too apple he found a way to suppress the fragility of the sapphire. I'm looking forward to the crash tests :) I'll be pleasantly surprised.