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iPhone X Parts Suppliers Reportedly on Schedule to Meet 2017 Production Demand
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We are exactly in the same situation. I have the 6 and wanted the X but those two reasons. That notch is incredibly annoying. I don’t know how Apple design team came up with that. I want to get the last iPhone to come with a Touch ID. Unlocking an iPhone should be about convenience not about Fort Knox security.
Now I have added a third thing to my list. The phone has 18:9 screen aspect ratio which means while playing most regular videos there is going to be a bezel on the sides. In fact the videos shot by the X would also be 16:9 so not sure why make phones with 18:9 aspect ratio when it’s not going to be utilized fully.
Well it’s not. The component makers stock price has suffered immensely due to the rumours of delays. Himax being one has droppped neigh on 20% and now will move slowly back up. Apple is not in the business of making its suppliers suffer unnecessarily. That is plain stupid.
If being a Guinea Pig means having the latest and coolest tech around... where do I sign?
Aw come on! I bought the 8+ so that you could test the X out for me!
THIS repeat non-sense is why I refuse to whitelist this site from my ad-blocker.
Definitely not aiming to be a downer here, but with all the hype and expectations for this highly anticipated device, sometimes I can't help but wonder how long it will take before Apple will hit a major QC snag like Samsung did with the Note7. And not necessarily a discontinuation, but a super-expensive and confidence-eroding recall campaign?Bring on the iPhone X
No matter how meticulously designed your products are, as long as one has to rely on a multitude of third parties for various components, not to mention fabricating your final product, permanently and completely avoiding such a major QC, not to mention PR, headache seems an almost impossible feat to accomplish.
Kudos to Apple for (aside from relatively minor issues) so far having dodged 'the big bullet'.
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Yes they make people who have paid deliberately wait for no reason while the stock just 'sits in a warehouse' somewhere
https://www.macrumors.com/2016/09/09/iphone-7-pre-order-shipping-estimates-slipping/
https://www.macrumors.com/2015/09/12/iphone-6s-preorders-slipping/
https://www.macrumors.com/2014/09/12/iphone-6-shipping-estimates-slipping/
https://www.macrumors.com/2013/09/21/iphone-5s-shipping-estimates-slip-to-october/
Yes they make people who have paid deliberately wait for no reason while the stock just 'sits in a warehouse' somewhere
https://www.macrumors.com/2016/09/09/iphone-7-pre-order-shipping-estimates-slipping/
https://www.macrumors.com/2015/09/12/iphone-6s-preorders-slipping/
https://www.macrumors.com/2014/09/12/iphone-6-shipping-estimates-slipping/
https://www.macrumors.com/2013/09/21/iphone-5s-shipping-estimates-slip-to-october/
People want what they can't have. Saying that stocks are low make people want to buy the iPhone x more.
Um, in the past yes. There are usually warehouses stocked with phones on launch day. Not this time. Most likely the size of Automotive in Wall-Mart.
You'll still have 10m people who want one at launch regardless of any hint of supply chain issues. Estimates slip because they literally can't make them fast enough. It has nothing to do with drumming up demand.
Why do you assume that if Apple got into the chip fabrication business they would be better at it than TSMC? or could produce camera modules better than Sony? The companies that produce iPhone components have long standing and experience in their respective areas; Apple has none.
Missing sleep? Nah. That's what alarm clocks are for. Wake up at 2:55. Back to bed at 3:05 or sooner with or without an order.
Apple never announced pre-ordering inventory or launch day inventory. -- only sales after the fact. It hasn't announced launch sales though since the iPhone 7. At peak Apple has made over 550K iPhones per day. iPhone X production has been said to be 10K per day or 400K per day. Pick which ever number you like or choose your own. Anyone's number is as good as anyone else's right now.
If it's 400K per day and reports are correct that Apple just ramped up that is approx 6.8m phones for launch day for the entire world assuming units produced on Nov 7 are drop shipped xpress from China as is Apple's practice. That inventory would probably last a few minutes if the servers don't conk out. If we assume initial demand is around 10m units, on par with the iPhone 6 launch week sales, that would leave a 3.2m unit deficit which would take a week to make up.
Of course that is all fantasy since we really have zero good info on how many X units can be produced in a day at this point.
"proMotion" is just a faancy name for 120hz or frames per second, where the "standard" is 60hz/fps. You have "ProMotion" even on CRT monitors that could output more than 60-75hz.
The advantages of 120hz over 60hz is independent of the technology being OLED, LCD or even FILM... 120fps is going to give you smoother movements on any tech of display.
A 120fps FILM movie will give you smoother movements than 60FPS in the world's best oled.
Battery life could be a concern since the GPU would have to render twice the frames in the same space of time, or samsung OLED panels might not be able to output more than 60fps yet.
Anyone who believes they are only making 1000 per day, or whatever the crazy numbers were, are grossly mistaken. Those are Samsung tactics to push people into buying a different phone, ahead of the X sale date. Like 2007, there will be plenty of phones.
I'm not sure there is a contradiction here. I think there could simply be two related, but very different things going on:
1. It's quite possible that it took a while for 3D sensing parts production to get into high speed. That would hinder production at first. So that's one set of news.
2. At the same time, there were/are separate production difficulties with the new requirement for individual alignment of components during assembly. So even with a parts supply, production has to ramp up as well.
Trouble is, reporters tend to indiscriminately clump any slowdown news together, so news about one thing going faster or slower appears to contradict previous news. But it really doesn't.
1. It's quite possible that it took a while for 3D sensing parts production to get into high speed. That would hinder production at first. So that's one set of news.
2. At the same time, there were/are separate production difficulties with the new requirement for individual alignment of components during assembly. So even with a parts supply, production has to ramp up as well.
Trouble is, reporters tend to indiscriminately clump any slowdown news together, so news about one thing going faster or slower appears to contradict previous news. But it really doesn't.
I did neither state, nor imply that I think Apple should get into the chip-fabrication or camera module manufacturing business, or for that matter, do everything in-house, but I was merely musing about statistical probabilities.
Lmao exactly. People act like the phone can’t be exchanged. I don’t understand some people’s logic on here
You think if there’s something wrong with your phone Apple won’t do anything about it? Or are you wayyyyy too busy to go into a store to get it exchanged?
I think you don't understand what Mac*RUMORS* is about. Go someplace else if you want only news.