Even Apple can't afford to equip iPhone 6 with a sapphire
crystal display  11th Feb 2014 | 14:06   Gorilla Glass' days
aren't quite so numbered after all  Just before the weekend it
was uncovered that Apple was preparing to build large quantities
of sapphire crystal displays.  This followed a patent filing
which described the use of an extra-resilient material on the
iPhone screen, so the natural assumption was that we'd see a
sapphire crystal clad iPhone 6.  Unfortunately it doesn't look
like that will be the case, as Chinese site MyDrivers is citing
sources from Taiwan's industrial chain as saying that it's
unlikely the iPhone 6 will have a sapphire crystal screen.
That's not for lack of trying as apparently there are already
prototypes of the device that are rocking a sapphire display,
but according to the unnamed sources the production capacity is
too low and the costs too high.  It's not all bad news though as
the same sources claim that Apple's iWatch will have a sapphire
crystal display instead.  Toug