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Apple iPhone Components Shipping in April?
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The question I want an answer to is when it will arrive in Europe. Locked phones are the invention of the devil.
by US law, the iPhone must be un-lockable.
Similar rumors (Chinese supplier) for one of the Nano releases took about 4 weeks to materialize into deliveries. There was no delayed delivery date for Nanos however. iPhone has a "set release date" so maybe they are planning well in advance to be sure they have time to deal with problems and to have sufficient supplies for any unexpected demand. If they over-ramp, the worst that could happen is they could have 4-6 weeks of inventory rather than 2. It seems when they EOL a product they try to do so when there is about 4 or so weeks of inventory.
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That is just one of the production steps. Those things still have to be put together different warehouses have to be stocked.
It's not like oh the parts are here lets put a few together and ship them to customers one by one.
I think June is a very realistic date for launching and shipping the device. If a few weeks early thats great. But we have seen it many times that stuff ships later and when it ships there is not enough stock for the demand.
Hopefully Apple thought this through rather good, if they want to impress the market they have to meet the demand and have the items overstocked at every facility.
It's not like oh the parts are here lets put a few together and ship them to customers one by one.
I think June is a very realistic date for launching and shipping the device. If a few weeks early thats great. But we have seen it many times that stuff ships later and when it ships there is not enough stock for the demand.
Hopefully Apple thought this through rather good, if they want to impress the market they have to meet the demand and have the items overstocked at every facility.
it's just a matter how. i hope it's rather easy and painless without sending the phone in and begging apple or the phone company to do so.
Well, that doesn't help much since you most likely have to buy the iPhone with a plan. I want the iPhone, but not to the extent that I am willing to sign up for a 18/24/36 month plan that I won't be able to use when I am in Europe.
So iPhone is basically locked to US. Perhaps not technically, but that is not relevant in this case.
Nevertheless, I didn't knew that locked phones was illegal in US. Thanks for the info.
Bottom line: no one knows when iPhone will ship, and we can't be sure if this rumor is true, or if components in April mean Apple is on target, early, or late.
But I'll say this. The iPhone will need more testing than any other Apple product. At MWSF Steve showed how integrated the phone would be with Google and Yahoo, and that there were considerable accomodations being made by Cingular for such things as visual voicemail.
And the hardware is brand spankin' new. Multitouch, proximity sensors, and because it's a phone, it has to "just work."
Apple and Cingular will have to roll out a few thousand of these by May to distribute to those special Cingular and Apple employees willing to trade their first-born and an air-tight NDA signature for the hippest toy under the sun.
Perhaps these April shipments are for a sampling quantity to refine the manufacturing and get test units into the field.
But I'll say this. The iPhone will need more testing than any other Apple product. At MWSF Steve showed how integrated the phone would be with Google and Yahoo, and that there were considerable accomodations being made by Cingular for such things as visual voicemail.
And the hardware is brand spankin' new. Multitouch, proximity sensors, and because it's a phone, it has to "just work."
Apple and Cingular will have to roll out a few thousand of these by May to distribute to those special Cingular and Apple employees willing to trade their first-born and an air-tight NDA signature for the hippest toy under the sun.
Perhaps these April shipments are for a sampling quantity to refine the manufacturing and get test units into the field.
I hope that Apple doesn't rush it and releases only an iPhone with a virtual 100% solid physical, electrical, and software setup, so that there is the most solid base upone which to build a consumer base.
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The iPhone is definitely not coming sooner than June. Anything that says the contrary is nothing more than speculation.
A friend of mine works for Cingular and supposedly they are gonna start training Apple Employees In late April or May. It's like a 7 day class or something. They are also gonna have kiosk set up in the Apple Stores, so it's a simple choose this data plan, then choose this voice plan, and then choose what other options you want. So, hopefully the experience will be better then those at the bestbuy and walmart stores.
Once the button is pressed it takes at best -2 months before a new product gets to the consumer. There are lots of issues eg production problems to contend with, component quality issues to iron out, testing programmes to complete (I hope they are doing some testing on production line produced iphones)supply lines to fill.They need to make 100's of thousands of these before they go on sale too. Manufacturing is a tough excercise and full of unexpected surprises, it doesn't just happen like that.
To me they should have products in stock in a few weeks and production standard phones going through final testing pretty much now, its almost April and its going to be very tough for them to make June let alone bring it forward.
To me they should have products in stock in a few weeks and production standard phones going through final testing pretty much now, its almost April and its going to be very tough for them to make June let alone bring it forward.
from a fresh start to a shipping product will take at least 8 tot 12 weeks with a new product. later the production time can go down to about 4 weeks total.
I'll admit, I don't have a cell phone and am realizing that as time goes on, the more & more I need one. I'd really like the iPhone. To all those who have Cingular, what's service like?
I wouldn't be that surprised, if, to get the full benefits of the iPhone with the Mac, you'll need OSX 10.5.
Limited functionality with 10.4 syncing to iPhone, full benefits with 10.5
Apple would only start manufacturing after FCC approval.
All stuff submitted to FCC become public knowledge, so we'll hear about the approval status.
Limited functionality with 10.4 syncing to iPhone, full benefits with 10.5
Apple would only start manufacturing after FCC approval.
All stuff submitted to FCC become public knowledge, so we'll hear about the approval status.
I don't think Apple will do this unlike the other company (think Microsoft).
Apple won't make you upgrade to 10.5 to get the "full" benefit of your iPhone. A simple software update to 10.4 will do. A 2 year contract plus $599 phone and plus $120 computer operating system upgrade? The iPhone can function by itself without a PC. Note that Apple wants to sell 10 millions of these by the end of 2008, and off course there will be a lot of Window iPhone users among them.
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