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Apple Reportedly Using New Method to Assemble iPhone Cameras in Effort to Save Costs
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Should be significantly cheaper, considering periscope lenses will have been around approximately 4-5 years when it finally gets into an iPhone. It will be the last major company to put one in a phone.
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You'll get your wish. In the not too distant future the iPhone Pro will be so expensive that they will be sold via payment plans for the vast majority who don't want to pay the $2000/$2500 baseline price.
Let’s see… I am not so confident that this production way results in good quality.
Anyway, anyone thinks Apple will lower the price of iPhone 13 compared to IPhone 12 at launch?. Ha!
Can but not will. The “new display, bigger battery, faster CPU ever” arguments to increase the price are just marketing. Apple could lower the price IF they wanted, but why if the sells are so strong?. So no savings passed to us. And now I have to buy a semi-fast charger because only my 11 came with it. Have you charged a Huawei phone?, man, that is reaaaally fast charge. iPhone fast charge is very mediocre, at best, but I am ranting. I will buy a 13pro on the same day it becomes available anyway. I hate my self… hahaha
Anyway, anyone thinks Apple will lower the price of iPhone 13 compared to IPhone 12 at launch?. Ha!
Can but not will. The “new display, bigger battery, faster CPU ever” arguments to increase the price are just marketing. Apple could lower the price IF they wanted, but why if the sells are so strong?. So no savings passed to us. And now I have to buy a semi-fast charger because only my 11 came with it. Have you charged a Huawei phone?, man, that is reaaaally fast charge. iPhone fast charge is very mediocre, at best, but I am ranting. I will buy a 13pro on the same day it becomes available anyway. I hate my self… hahaha
The target of apple is that you lease the iPhone, there have been talks with some financial operators since a couple of years but still nothing has come out… yet. But that is not such a bad idea. The benefit?, you bring the iPhone to much more people who cant buy it in “normal” installments.
Sure, it's clear Apple's goal is to make financing the iPhone the "go to" method of purchase, but this will allow them to go to town with the actual unit price as all everyone will care about is the price of their chosen monthly payment plan, rather than the actual one-off cost.
I'm not personally looking forward to the iPhone costing £2000 for the base model in the not too distant future, nor £4000 for a MacBook. I can see Macs becoming a subscription based purchase where you have 24/36/48 monthly instalments before you own it or want to trade it in for an upgrade.
This is just pure speculation, but you can see where things are going. If they can get away with making hardware purchase subscription based, they will.
And no doubt iPhones and other Apple products will have further price increases (guessing 10%) to compensate for lost App Store revenue when alternate app stores come to being.
That's life.
Why would they? If you could produce the same luxury product for cheaper and enough people were still willing to pay the same amount, would YOU reduce the price? Of course not. This isn't a charity they're running here.
😂 He is brimming with them!!! Quite a few years since Pro Max is $1099. Might be hiked sometime soon
So does this mean that Apple will pass the savings on o customers who wet can buy top-of-the-line, maxed-out ip
Apple is reportedly changing up the way it produces camera modules for its iPhone, now opting to individually produce each of the camera lenses separately, rather than procure them together and have them pre-assembled, according to a report from The Elec.
The report notes that up to last year, Apple's iPhone camera lenses were produced by its suppliers LG InnoTek, Sharp, and O'Film. The lenses were "pre-assembled." Now, Apple is consolidating the production of its camera modules to its largest supplier, Foxconn, to save costs.
Foxconn, in preparation for its new camera assembly responsibility, has received new inspection equipment from the South Korean firm Hyvision System. The new system will check whether the wide, Ultra Wide, and Telephoto cameras' lenses, including their optical axis and image sensors, are correctly aligned on higher-end iPhone models. An incorrect alignment could result in drastically reduced image quality.
The new changes are being done to "save costs," but it remains unclear if those savings would be presented to customers. It's also unclear whether the new production methodology and Foxconn's role in camera assembly will be in practice for the upcoming iPhone 13. Given that the new iPhones are already in production, that's unlikely to be the case.
Article Link: Apple Reportedly Using New Method to Assemble iPhone Cameras in Effort to Save Costs
So does this mean that since Apple will be saving money, they will pass the savings onto we customers, and we will be able to buy top-of-the-line, maxed-out iPhones for less than $1,000???
Apple is reportedly changing up the way it produces camera modules for its iPhone, now opting to individually produce each of the camera lenses separately, rather than procure them together and have them pre-assembled, according to a report from The Elec.
The report notes that up to last year, Apple's iPhone camera lenses were produced by its suppliers LG InnoTek, Sharp, and O'Film. The lenses were "pre-assembled." Now, Apple is consolidating the production of its camera modules to its largest supplier, Foxconn, to save costs.
Foxconn, in preparation for its new camera assembly responsibility, has received new inspection equipment from the South Korean firm Hyvision System. The new system will check whether the wide, Ultra Wide, and Telephoto cameras' lenses, including their optical axis and image sensors, are correctly aligned on higher-end iPhone models. An incorrect alignment could result in drastically reduced image quality.
The new changes are being done to "save costs," but it remains unclear if those savings would be presented to customers. It's also unclear whether the new production methodology and Foxconn's role in camera assembly will be in practice for the upcoming iPhone 13. Given that the new iPhones are already in production, that's unlikely to be the case.
Article Link: Apple Reportedly Using New Method to Assemble iPhone Cameras in Effort to Save Costs
Yeah I got my 12 pro max last year and I wasn’t in a rush. I’ve since found I probably should have got the mini. I simply don’t use my phone like I used to.
I used to notice all the people on the train before I went work from home. All looking at their phone. I’d usually have a podcast in and not look at my phone the whole way to work.
More like this is going to save $.50 per module and they’re going to sell the iPhone 14 Pro for $1199 instead of $999.
It means they can sell more than they can make. So there's no need to drop the price. Economics 101.
Of course, that has always be a thing in manufacturing. One the car world, the manufacturers realized that if they can reduce the number of screws on every car they make by 1, they save lots of money. I had a neighbor that worked in a car plant in Newark Delaware and he told me that they had a minimum wage (as far as minimum in UAW terms) pick up all of the dropped screws between day and night shifts and the savings far exceeded the salary 10 times over.