Apple Already Uses Sapphire in The IPhone 5S for The Camera Lens And The Home button

The idea that it may be used in the next iPhone screen elicited a strong response from Corning’s Senior VP, Tony Tripeny at a Morgan Stanley conference last week.

When we look at it, we see a lot of disadvantages of sapphire versus Gorilla Glass,” said Tripeny. “It’s about 10 times more expensive. It’s about 1.6 times heavier. It’s environmentally unfriendly. It takes about 100 times more energy to generate a Sapphire crystal than it does glass. It transmits less light which … means either dimmer devices or shorter battery life. It continues to break. I think while it’s a scratch resistant product it still breaks…”


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