Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Apple scaling down iPhone production?

Risco

Risco

macrumors 68000
Original poster
Jul 22, 2010
1,961
321
United Kingdom
I have nothing to substantiate this, so please take with a pinch of salt. My mate was trying to get an iPhone 4 in the shops today, but he was told that Apple are slowing production of iPhone 4 for an unknown reason. This was from an O2 rep in the UK.

Any ideas if there is some truth to this? What reason could they possibly be slowing production for unless the Verizon rumour is true and they need parts for CDMA?
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7)

Not going to happen!
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7)

whocaresit said:
Sept 30th. Mark your calendars.
Click to expand...

Why, is the world coming to an end, or something?
 
Nothing is going to happen on Sept 30 in regards to iPhone hardware.

The phone is selling very well. It is on track to be updated mid next year.
 
Risco said:
I have nothing to substantiate this, so please take with a pinch of salt. My mate was trying to get an iPhone 4 in the shops today, but he was told that Apple are slowing production of iPhone 4 for an unknown reason. This was from an O2 rep in the UK.

Any ideas if there is some truth to this? What reason could they possibly be slowing production for unless the Verizon rumour is true and they need parts for CDMA?
Click to expand...

you do know my friends unlces roomate best friends next door Neibhoor said this is just a total fail:D
 
on september 30th they have to decide to keep the case program going...OR they might have redone the antenna!! o_O possibly with they're acquired patent for LiquiMetal
 
Risco said:
I have nothing to substantiate this, so please take with a pinch of salt. My mate was trying to get an iPhone 4 in the shops today, but he was told that Apple are slowing production of iPhone 4 for an unknown reason. This was from an O2 rep in the UK.

Any ideas if there is some truth to this? What reason could they possibly be slowing production for unless the Verizon rumour is true and they need parts for CDMA?
Click to expand...

Don't take this the wrong way, but your mate is a touch gullible. "You're not going to be able to buy one if you wait any longer" is one of the oldest sales tricks in the book.
 
I still can't believe people think Apple would release a new revision of the iPhone 4. Do people not realize that if they changed the antenna it would be documented in an FCC filing? This would have to be filed quite a bit before the new revision comes out, but they can ask the FCC to delay the public release, but only up until the product is in the public.

Basically what I am saying is if they did make a revision, we would know about it, there would be no way Apple could keep it a secret. Then there would such a huge wave of backlash because it would be the exact opposite of EVERYTHING that Apple has been saying about the antenna.

So can we please just shut up about this already? Thanks, move along to the next dumb repetitive topic.
 
Freshmixture said:
The just need to clear coat or plastic coat the antenna....problem solved
Click to expand...
They just don't need to do anything about it. They admitted the problems ratio is too small to keep the case program in the air. They won't change anything to this model (including the white one). Wait for the iPhone 5 if you hope to see changes like that.
 
Freshmixture said:
The just need to clear coat or plastic coat the antenna....problem solved
Click to expand...
Cool, you're an RF engineer are you? It's funny but, when Apple got into the mobile phone business, you would have thought that they would have hired some of their own.

If it was that simple it would have been done. I doubt the issue of antenna bridging at the "death spot" is solely down to physical contact, there will be a very significant capacitive coupling effect and, apart from the issues someone else mentioned with coating stainless steel, they probably can't get anything like the right dielectric constant out of a thin coating, especially if their choice of materials is limited by bonding properties.

Do you really think that you know more about fixing this problem that one of the most carefully selected and best resourced group of RF engineers in the world?

- Julian
 
I think it is a case of supply and demand. I am still waiting on a replacement for my faulty screen on my iPhone 4. I have been told october, which doe not worry me to much, as the phone part works.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back