Does the iPhone 7 use Gorilla Glass 5?

[jent]

To those speaking about Corning's business before Apple, I remember in the official Steve Jobs biography a part where they talk about how the company was considering shutting down due to low sales, and lo and behold they are saved by massive orders for the iPod or iPhone (I don't recall which).

 

[Beenblacklisted]

Industry insiders and the Apple suppliers list and jobs creation pages would all seem to disagree with you. I linked to the info above.

Do you have any citations?

Yes, apple themselves, if they were using this brand of glass it would have been displayed publicly at the iphone 7 release launch. But they didnt, the iphone 7 is a combination of different materials one of them being corning glass materials. But not gorilla glass.

 

[willmtaylor]

Yes, apple themselves, if they were using this brand of glass it would have been displayed publicly at the iphone 7 release launch. But they didnt, the iphone 7 is a combination of different materials one of them being corning glass materials. But not gorilla glass.

History isn't on your side.

Sounds like you're merely arguing branding/semantics anyway.

 

[cynics]

But that wasn't what you originally stated which is why he responded the way he did. Corning has been around for much longer than you probably think and doing business in multiple sectors successfully. Gorilla Glass is just a small niche of their business.

Cornings 'display glass' is their largest business segment with Gorilla Glass being their crown jewel. We need to keep in mind Gorilla Glass is a marketing term, the patented processes extends into other areas of display glass, TVs, Monitors, etc etc.

I noticed I had stock in them a while ago and thought it was surprising so I read up on them a bit, not much but a bit.

 

[jimbo1mcm]

Apple doesn't use the term, " Gorilla Glass", because they are sensitive to the environment and it might offend some Gorillas.

 

[willmtaylor]

Apple doesn't use the term, " Gorilla Glass", because they are sensitive to the environment and it might offend some Gorillas.

Apple killed Harambe.

 

[bushman4]

It's never been advertised or mentioned as Gorilla glass 5. It may be a variant of Gorilla glass 5. But I tend to doubt it

 

[Fuyuanhuihaoxiao]

I don't think so actually

 

[daflake]

Cornings 'display glass' is their largest business segment with Gorilla Glass being their crown jewel. We need to keep in mind Gorilla Glass is a marketing term, the patented processes extends into other areas of display glass, TVs, Monitors, etc etc.

I noticed I had stock in them a while ago and thought it was surprising so I read up on them a bit, not much but a bit.

Yes it is, with optical right behind. However, it is important to remember that the display section covers more than just phones. My use of "small niche" was not correct, but the rest of my comment stands for the person I quoted.

 

[cynics]

I don't think so actually

I never did because between iPhone interactions (non S to S and ever full revisions on some years) the thickness of the glass didn't change. However one of the biggest 'features' of Gorilla Glass versions (distinguishing feature) was its thickness change.

This could indicate two things. It wasn't Gorilla Glass or it was never the latest version of Gorilla Glass.

Regardless for some reason people love to put it on a pedestal even though there has been better scratch resistant display glass available and get upset when you say it might not be Gorilla Glass. I guess the marketing works better on some people then others.

 

[jal64]

I LIVE in NY and know what they do. The point was that their Gorilla Glass manufacturing was almost nonexistent before the iPhone and other similar smartphones. No need to be rude.

No, the point was that Gorilla Glass is a VERY small part of Corning. The specialty materials division that makes GG only contributes about 12% of it's business and GG is only one of it's products. As the guy said, check it out.
[doublepost=1512231937][/doublepost]Going a bit off topic, the question addressing Gorilla Glass and IPhone screens, many of the contributors have obviously been affected by Corning marketing. Gorilla Glass has been promoted heavily in Corning advert, BUT ... overall it is a VERY minor part of Corning's business. GG is made in Corning's Specialty Materials division which makes up less than 15% of overall business and it is only ONE of Specialty materials products. Corning has four other divisions, two of which make up almost 70% of the business.

Now, on with the show. I read a few years ago that Apple actually bought a company that makes a Sapphire based glass with the intent of using it in IPhone screens. They gave up when they found that they could not make the process scale economically. Does that mean they use Gorilla Glass? As observed in this forum they don't say, but I would more likely bet yes than I would on most any NFL game.