In that case, I stand corrected. Thx.
First, my post was kind of harsh. I apologize for the tone.
To explain what I know about this, a leading reason for PWM is that it's very energy efficient. TV designers can be lazy about that - sure, at least here in the US (and probably in the EU?) there are energy efficiency requirements and stickers that show energy use...and those are important for things like refrigerator/freezers and dishwashers and the like, but I doubt very many people pay attention to the energy use of their TVs (at least now that plasma TVs are history).
Mobile is a whole different case. That's actually what's at the root of Apple's misguided "throttling." There's only so much energy available in a battery (and only so much peak capacity), and everyone wants longer battery life. Lithium battery chemistry has limits, so engineers need to be thrifty, not thirsty, when they design mobile devices.
I could be mis-appraising this. I'm not an EE, but I do have a lot of experience with mobile and stationary communications hardware (including building radios).
It would be interesting to know whether Apple focused on this in the design stage, and how seriously they factored it into the design process. Other OLED phones use PWM. Some implement PWM differently and don't seem to cause issues for users. Apple presumably had and still has those choices, though it's not clear they can do that with the existing circuitry in the iPhone X.
It would also be interesting to know what Apple's awareness and sensitivity to this issue is now - are they really even aware at any meaningful corporate level? Apple is so - almost secretive. The house has to have pretty much burned to the ground before they'll make any kind of public acknowledgement that there's an issue.
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