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Apple Returns 5-8 Million Defective iPhones to Foxconn?
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There aren't too many alternatives, I'd guess. Most companies couldn't handle Apple's volume of orders.
I'm sure he exaggerated when he said that he returned 30 (I doubt I would even make it to 5 before quitting on the iPhone). I'm also sure that Apple is happy that he's switching to a Galaxy 4 (they would rather not have him as a customer if he is returning a lot)
.Yep although I wonder why they didn't consider Samsung
.My power button is nearly out
on your iphone 5!?!?! wow..
my 4's home button lasted me only a year, was hoping the home on the 5 would last longer, so far so good for me
will be returning my iphone 5 next week. It had camera issues one month after I bought it but I did not notice the dead pixels until they got worse. Now my camera has patchy blobs all over it and a few dead pixels.
I showed this to a friend who then also aimed his camera at a white surface. Lo and behold he also had a few dead pixels and will be returning his iphone 5 too, before it gets any worse.
I showed this to a friend who then also aimed his camera at a white surface. Lo and behold he also had a few dead pixels and will be returning his iphone 5 too, before it gets any worse.
Hmm, stories like that are fodder for android fans. Fortunately my ipad mini was perfect out of the box. For $460, I would have taken it back if had flaws. My galaxy skyrocket is still good as new too. =D =D
Now that I think about it, I've had quite a few apple products and all have them have been just fine. Is this a recent development? (the flaws)
wow so much for quality control
maybe they should automate the construction
rather than having rotten builds from slave labor
Part of what Bob Mansfield does is create machines to build iPhones. They mentioned it in the iPhone 5 keynote.
I hope you don't consider "color accuracy" an issue or you're about to go through 30 GS4s.
I get my interpretation from the same source where you think it sounds like it's a collection of customer returns from the past several years.
More importantly... exactly "who" sat down and visually inspected 8 million iPhones?
True.
Sad thing is, 8 million iPhones disappear from the supply chain and Apple still has plenty of stock (no pun intended on their stock price).
And 100% sure you will not be satisfied with S4 if you keep the same level of expectation.
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And just think, soon another company other than the most proven one will be making the insides- the crucial guts- of our future iDevices. Here's a thread full of cosmetic and other (mostly surface) issues. Just wait until the guts themselves are potentially disappointing us.
I suspect that at least some of us will see Samsung differently when the pain in concepts like "Die Samsung Die" starts being increasingly felt in the Apple devices we pay for and use ourselves. Take note of some of the display threads recently where people are posting that they are hoping they get their replacement with a Samsung display instead of one of the other display manufacturers.
I wonder how long until we see similar threads of people hoping to get one of the last iDevices with Samsung-built "guts" rather than TSMC. I bet "Die Samsung, Die" becomes "Why Samsung, Why?" and then gives way to growing hope that Apple & Samsung get back together again... much like the old days when Apple would blow off one graphics card maker (and many would then hate that graphics card maker, bash them, call all of their graphics tech old or garbage) then Apple would later return to them (and many would then love them, welcome them back, call the graphics card maker they are re-replacing old, garbage, etc). Same story, different players.
I'm not a Samsung lover at all but they sure know how to help Apple make some great stuff. I hope TSMC can do it at least as well.
I suspect that at least some of us will see Samsung differently when the pain in concepts like "Die Samsung Die" starts being increasingly felt in the Apple devices we pay for and use ourselves. Take note of some of the display threads recently where people are posting that they are hoping they get their replacement with a Samsung display instead of one of the other display manufacturers.
I wonder how long until we see similar threads of people hoping to get one of the last iDevices with Samsung-built "guts" rather than TSMC. I bet "Die Samsung, Die" becomes "Why Samsung, Why?" and then gives way to growing hope that Apple & Samsung get back together again... much like the old days when Apple would blow off one graphics card maker (and many would then hate that graphics card maker, bash them, call all of their graphics tech old or garbage) then Apple would later return to them (and many would then love them, welcome them back, call the graphics card maker they are re-replacing old, garbage, etc). Same story, different players.
I'm not a Samsung lover at all but they sure know how to help Apple make some great stuff. I hope TSMC can do it at least as well.
Where in this rumors does it indicate that the casing is the reason for the returns? All the translated rumor said was: "due to appearance of substandard or dysfunctional problems". How does substandard or dysfunctional problems = crap aluminum?
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No, they'd punish the stock for the problems happening in the first place.
I'm guessing it was a combination of both. I went through three phones, and the last one I got (which still has a dead pixel, but I gave up trying) had a sticker that said something like 'checked by applecare'. So I'm assuming they started looking over phones after so many people were returning them.
I know about a dozen people that have iPhone 5's, and the majority of them have returned them at least once. If the overall population had even close to the same return ratio, 5-8 million isn't hard to believe.
I like Apple products, but this one was a dud, in my opinion.
How about if what's wrong is this isn't true? Why do people these days assume every rumor translated from some Asian source is factual? This rumor is apparently based on one Foxconn employee and people just take it as gospel truth?
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Interesting though that this rumor comes out a day before Apple announces earnings. I don't think that's a coincidence. If there's so many defective units how come we're just hearing about them now?
Not had a problem with any iPhone 5. I did personally have a 4 or it might have been a 4S that had an issue. It turned out to be a defective SIM.
We purchase quite a bit of tech stuff. We as a company, use our stuff very hard. We have had far less issues with Apple products than with any other vender.
We purchase quite a bit of tech stuff. We as a company, use our stuff very hard. We have had far less issues with Apple products than with any other vender.
Maybe Samsung has an insider working at Foxconn.
Let the conspiracy theories commence.
Actually, iOS does let you share files between apps. Not glamorous but it works.
I agree iOS is the same and has been since launch, but I've used Android and it isn't for me. If anything I'll just move to Windows ^_^.
Many reasons why electronics in high numbers do not get produced in the US:
Not enough workers of the type needed to do these kind of jobs.
Not enough engineers.
Too many restrictions in the US tax issues, etc.etc..raw material already there etc. can't list them all.
We went over that in several threads. In one of them an Obama and Steve Jobs discussion was mentioned.
So, if you'd educate yourself a little bit (CATO institute and others) you may get the real reasons.
Depends on who that one employee was doesn't it. If he was the guy responsible for handling the returns then it's probably an accurate number. If it was the janitor then probably not. I would tend to believe that the returns rate is quite high given all the problems initially reported with iPhone 5 units. Given that those reports seemed to have quietened down of late I suspect that Apple have been more vigorous in spotting and returning defective units to avoid a lot of unhappy customers.