Company
Asahi Glass
TL;DR
Japanese glass company that developed competing smartphone glass but arrived 2-3 years behind Corning due to lack of preserved historical research.
Japanese glass company that developed competing smartphone glass but arrived 2-3 years behind Corning due to lack of preserved historical research. The delay cost market share as Apple and Samsung standardized on Gorilla Glass. Asahi's product was comparable quality but the timing gap - caused by needing to develop from scratch rather than accessing institutional memory - proved decisive.