More Claims of 'Delays' for iPhone 5S Over Fingerprint Sensor Issues

[cocky jeremy]

Except for Apple Maps right?

And how long did the guy in charge of it last once it came out and sucked?

 

[designcouch]

Glaring Omission

Meanwhile, one thing that you fail to mention in your article is that the analyst in question WORKS FOR SAMSUNG. Something of a bias there, perhaps...

Courtesy of Gruber at http://daringfireball.net/

 

[Apple Corps]

I'd rather Apple delayed the iPhone and got it right than released an early bodge job.

That is a specious point of view - Apple needs to get it right and do it NOW.

They have more than enough resources to get back on track.

 

[rjosef]

No new products until Fall?

I say Apple skips the "5S" and introduces the "iPhone 6" in October with no front Home button and a slightly larger screen with a slightly smaller body. Sweet!

 

[maxosx]

Maybe someone at the top, is superstitious and fears releasing an iPhone in 2013

I believe all other reasons / excuses / odd reasoning has been exhausted. Or maybe not.

 

[theBB]

Suppliers aren't told when production will start? Yeah, Foxconn just has thousands of workers sitting idle just in case Apple wants production to start...

When you have 1.2 million employees, you can shift tens of thousands of them to different product lines in relatively short order. They don't need a six month notice. That is why there are very few companies in the world that can accomplish what Foxconn can do.

 

[thewitt]

When you have 1.2 million employees, you can shift tens of thousands of them to different product lines in relatively short order. They don't need a six month notice. That is why there are very few companies in the world that can accomplish what Foxconn can do.

Not really. Ramping any one facility requires significant lead time, hiring and training.

 

[theBB]

Not really. Ramping any one facility requires significant lead time, hiring and training.

I believe I read somewhere that they can ramp up in about 6 weeks. Before then, they must have assembly test lines to work out the details.

Major OEMs tend to use vague terms such as "holiday launch" or "before the summer". Sometimes everything is ready to go, but the old product is still selling well, so they keep you in limbo for another couple of months. Nobody commits to an exact ramp up date 6 months in advance, when engineering tests are still under way. I can only imagine how much more tight lipped Apple must be.

 

[Dave.UK]

Never thought this was a great implementation on Android. Sure it's nice if you miss your screen from lighting up, but if I get a text and all I see is an LED light blinking I have to wake the screen any way. Again, it's nice and novel for missed notifications, but an LED light only tells so much.

But the flashing LED light tells you that you have a missed call, email, text message etc so you dont have to keep waking the screen up to check!

I would hardly call LED notifications novel!

 

[Lee3rdDegree]

Im worried about over exposure of information with the fingerprint mechanic. Biometric is too much.