Nace is correct in pointing out that OLED rumors for the iPhone first surfaced last year and this is simply, as is so often the case, a recycling. He does some recycling himself, noting last year's completely unrelated rumor -- except that both involve the phone's screen -- that Apple had made a huge investment in "expensive glass-cutting machines, ostensibly to craft complex, curved displays (and perhaps other body components) for the iPhone 5." Rollup . 

As we know, that didn't pan out. "Obviously, those glass cutting machines were not utilized in the iPhone 4S's production. ... But if the glass-cutting machine rumors are true -- together with these late-breaking rumors of Samsung producing OLED screens for the iPhone 5 -- we very well may see a curvier iPhone this year." And if not this year, then it would not be surprising to see it next year or the year after that.

"Amazingly," says the easily amazed Nace, "iPhone 5 News Blog columnist Charles Moore prognosticated the possibility of a curved glass display back on May 24th [2011], predicting that the AMOLED technology debut on an iPhone in 2012. Charles' predictions continue to be impressively accurate."

Amazingly, Moore actually did no such thing. Moore's post, after a lengthy discussion of the revolutionary curved glass windshield on the 1971 Volkswagen Super Beetle, concludes with a regurgitation of the glass-cutting investment rumor then current and makes not a single mention of OLED or AMOLED.

And it's hard for one's predictions to be accurate before what one is predicting has come to pass.