The Opinions of the MacRumors Community:
Phase 1: Apple sucks! They're creating a fictional demand by limiting supply; Apple needs to speed up production.
Apple increases supply.
Phase 2: Apple sucks! Product quality is going way downhill; Apple needs to slow down production.
How many phones do they make that compare in prices with the iPhone? In the mobile phone pond, the iPhone is one big, fat, mean carp in a pond full of gold fish.
I don't buy this. 800,000 a week is way over the top, no matter how popular this phone is. That works out to 4,761 phone produced each hour. Where did all that manufacturing capacity come from?
The carp is a soft mouthed bottom feeder.
As a shareholder, I am happy.
As a customer, I am terrified.
Apple's quality is dogp** nowadays, and the new white iPhones are already getting reports of cracks.
I just wish Apple would get quality fixed. I've bought three of the new iPhones, and with the buggy iPhone OS 2.0, I really regret the decision. They are simply poor quality tools.
Sure, Apple can fix them over the next 3-6 months with patches, but that's not the point. It's that type of shoddy craftsmanship that makes Microsoft who they are.
Apple's quality is dogp** nowadays
Does this mean that O2 will now start selling the white ones in their stores?
Of course not. Don't be silly.
Hmm... I see what you mean: 1.3 phones built per second, 24/7 sustained seems like a very tall order. I mean it's not like making m&ms that just pop out of the mould and they're done.