GT Advanced Technologies Inc fka GTAT

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This is pure speculation but there could be non technical reasons for a change of mind WRT Sapphire. Maybe to make Sapphire work electronically would have made after market support overly complicated...multiple configurations... or the circuitry changes would have required additional hardware redesign that did not show up on the breadboard or the functions could not be made identical enough to satisfy marketing / sales or my idea is wrong. There was some banter here that Sapphire was really not planned to be phased in until mid 2015. If so it makes you wonder why Apple played hard ball. This may have been an easy out.