Apple Watch in Short Supply Due to Taptic Engine Bottlenecks

[Aluminum213]

mine was produced last week. i hope it arrives without any of those flaws tomorrow

still hard to say if yours was a defective unit until you get it

 

[hiroden]

When it comes to manufacturing small moving parts, Japan is still no.1.

 

[bashmagic]

Nice of Apple to own up to this.

 

[Swiss-G]

Doesn't make sense.

I ordered 2 black sports within seconds or the launch. 4-6 week delivery.

Yesterday I ordered a white sports. Out for delivery tomorrow!

They both use the same Taptic engine!

Well if you consider that Apple anticipated that the SG BSB was going to be the most popular model you would expect them to ramp up production early.

If those watches then suffer from taptic engine fault and need to be scrapped that would explain the shortage.

 

[afx128]

Doesn't make sense.

I ordered 2 black sports within seconds or the launch. 4-6 week delivery.

Yesterday I ordered a white sports. Out for delivery tomorrow!

They both use the same Taptic engine!

sounds like the SG is using the taptic engine sourced from the Shenzun supplier.

 

[jthesssin]

that doesn't explain the lack of...

Space Black watches in the wild! If they were having Taptic Engine issues, it would affect all models equally. Nice Try Apple! WHERES MY WATCH!

 

[whawhat]

Cook said this week that they planned to launch the watch in more countries at the end of June so it sounds like Apple are addressing this issue and ramping up production.

 

[SMIDG3T]

mine was produced last week. i hope it arrives without any of those flaws tomorrow

Mine was produced a week before yours! Hopefully it works 100%.

 

[KPOM]

Nice of Apple to own up to this.

They switched suppliers and are rectifying the issue. What else do you expect? My guess is that they knew about this issue on April 10th and defaulted to the June shipment dates to give themselves cushion to get the shipments out.

 

[ozziegn]

this is gonna be bad for those people waiting and waiting only to quite possibly receive a defective watch.

 

[Rogifan]

Nice of Apple to own up to this.

Has Apple comment on this story?

 

[KPOM]

I'd be curious as to which taptic engine was in iFixit's teardown sample.

 

[AppleScruff1]

I wonder if people will tweak out wondering if you can tell if your watch tactic engine was made in Japan or China?

 

[mcdj]

Cue the "38mm Blue Strap Preorders made on launch day between 3:00-3:15am; post your serial number and your Taptic functionality on a scale of 1-100 here!" threads.

 

[KPOM]

Has Apple comment on this story?

No.

 

[whawhat]

this is gonna be bad for those people waiting and waiting only to quite possibly receive a defective watch.

Do people even read articles anymore? It clearly states that apple discovered this issue during production and scrapped the defective watches. All the watches that have/are shipping are using the taptic engine supplied from Japan.

 

[tkukoc]

And this is also why there are so many defects in week 14 production watches. From taptic to band peeling to the dreaded lifting of the screen. Glad mine is week 16.

 

[umrk]

I'm sure this is somehow Angela Ahrendts' fault.

Obama's fault.

 

[Cyberpower678]

They deliberately told one of their suppliers to make defective parts to make it look like there was high demand. /s

Yea, that's it.

 

[zmunkz]

This explains a lot

 

[troygridrion]

All I really want to know is who the latest group of people receiving their watches are.

I ordered mine at 6am (MT)... had to wait until morning because I was waiting for a pay check.. little did I know that apple doesn't charge your account until shipment.. Had one in the cart at 1:01am....... uh

Anyways, order confirmation April 10, 6:20am. SS 42mm BSB

Where are people with that watch in order line? Anyone that ordered after the first hour have any status updates, or is apple still shipping out to people who ordered within the first few seconds....?

I Ordered at 12:06 42mm SS BSB on 4/10 and my shipping status changed from processing to preparing for shipment this morning and my credit card was charged this am as well.

 

[mcdj]

And this is also why there are so many defects in week 14 production watches. From taptic to band peeling to the dreaded lifting of the screen. Glad mine is week 16.

What is also why? This makes zero sense. You have no idea which watches are affected by Taptic issues, if any even made it out of the factory.

It's been proven time and again that defects happen across production weeks, in different factories, for every Apple product.

 

[catalyst6]

And this is also why there are so many defects in week 14 production watches. From taptic to band peeling to the dreaded lifting of the screen. Glad mine is week 16.

No. Don't start this nonsense.

 

[salamence502]

Can any of you read? The reason your watches haven't shipped yet is because Apple decided to ship you a working unit instead of a defective one (at least, without a defective Taptic Engine part).

 

[Rogifan]

No.

They might need to. Hopefully they caught it before many, if any, got into consumer hands.