How the iPhone 6 may have forced Apple to bankrupt its own sapphire supplier

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By far the strangest story to pop up this week has been the surprise bankruptcy filing of GT Advanced Technologies, which had been Apple's top supplier of sapphire for displays of the Apple Watch and other devices. The Wall Street Journal now reports that GT Advanced is looking to get out of the sapphire business all together "after a failed effort to produce material for Apple’s smartphone screens."

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