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Do you think the panel supplier wouldn't be happy to sell more of a panel Apple made very cheap for them to manufacture at scale?

• solatic 9y ago
  You can bet that Apple makes those suppliers sign exclusivity contracts, less to keep the panels out of the hands of competitors like Lenovo and more to keep the panels out of the hands of counterfeiters/knockoff-artists.
  • 4ad 9y ago
    And yet you can buy that exact LCD on ebay.
    • icebraining 9y ago
      Can you buy 5000 of them on eBay?
      • walterbell 9y ago
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