Lol carriers try that every year and then people are hugely disappointed when the carriers get much less stock then Apple and lots of people are empty handed. Don't count on that
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iPhone X Production Faces Further Delays, Will Start in Mid-October
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What's a $200-$300 price difference anyway when you're financing the phone over 24/30 months?...
Any Apple "fan" willing to switch to Android is either bluffing or just grasping at straws to try something different.
thing is this.. it's not as if the factory worker shows up in the morning, begins their task of making the display, their neighbor makes the camera, etc... then at the end of the day, a phone has been made.
an iPhone is being made all over the world
• Chipsets and Processors ....(S.Korea / Taiwan)
• Flash memory ..................(Japan / S.Korea)
• Gyroscope .......................(France / Italy)
• Touch ID .........................(Taiwan)
• Battery ...........................(S.Korea)
• Accelerometer .................(Germany / U.S.)
• Camera ...........................(Japan / U.S. / Taiwan)
• Display ...........................(Japan / Taiwan)
• Glass ..............................(U.S.)
• NFC ................................(Netherlands)
(probably not exactly factual.. especially if the OLED displays are coming from Samsung(S.Korea).. but close enough to make the point)
most of what Foxconn (China) does is the main chassis assembly..
so when we hear something like "this amount of phones are being made per day", it really makes zero sense in how most people will interpret that.. some parts of it were made last year, some last month, etc.
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10,000 units a day?
who knows, maybe that means they've been shrink wrapping 10,000 boxed units (ie- THE final product) of them per day up till now.. but they could easily shrink-wrap a million of them in a day.. it's just that they haven't as they haven't needed to.. once the final OS (for example) is installed on them, then the dude pushes the button and the entire lot gets wrapped that day..
10,000 units per day, going through some sort of final process, could be irrelevant info as to whether or not there will be millions of phones ready on launch day.. but by the time the news makes it to the consumers reading rumor sites, the report, while possibly factual, has been skewed to make it seem as if there's a huge shortage and/or problem..
we just have no way of knowing what's meant by 10k/day.. none.
and it's such a ridiculously low number for the way many will read it as (omg- there will only be 325,000 phones available in November
)... it just makes no sense. none.. which means, even it the report is true, it's being misconstrued beyond recognition by the time it's processed by consumer rumor readers.(imo)
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lol yeah because demand isn't already st an all time high. So why would they actually sell every one they could make when they could have them sitting in a warehouse 
They should have just stuck with the 8/8+ this year, and then hold onto the design of the X for next year. That would have given them more than enough time to work out kinks.
I look forward to getting a new phone sometime around the 4th of July.
why is Apple acting all new, deer in the head lights about the OLED technology, its been around for 10-15 years.
Good times!!!
They are crazy, not stupid! While I may be mired in the internet crash of 2017...I will try my dang best to order one...or cry trying!!!
thing is this.. it's not as if the factory worker shows up in the morning, begins their task of making the display, their neighbor makes the camera, etc... then at the end of the day, a phone has been made.
an iPhone is being made all over the world
• Chipsets and Processors ....(S.Korea / Taiwan)
• Flash memory ..................(Japan / S.Korea)
• Gyroscope .......................(France / Italy)
• Touch ID .........................(Taiwan)
• Battery ...........................(S.Korea)
• Accelerometer .................(Germany / U.S.)
• Camera ...........................(Japan / U.S. / Taiwan)
• Display ...........................(Japan / Taiwan)
• Glass ..............................(U.S.)
• NFC ................................(Netherlands)
(probably not exactly factual.. especially if the OLED displays are coming from Samsung(S.Korea).. but close enough to make the point)
most of what Foxconn (China) does is the main chassis assembly..
so when we hear something like "this amount of phones are being made per day", it really makes zero sense in how most people will interpret that.. some parts of it were made last year, some last month, etc.
----
10,000 units a day?
who knows, maybe that means they've been shrink wrapping 10,000 boxed units (ie- THE final product) of them per day up till now.. but they could easily shrink-wrap a million of them in a day.. it's just that they haven't as they haven't needed to.. once the final OS (for example) is installed on them, then the dude pushes the button and the entire lot gets wrapped that day..
10,000 units per day, going through some sort of final process, could be irrelevant info as to whether or not there will be millions of phones ready on launch day.. but by the time the news makes it to the consumers reading rumor sites, the report, while possibly factual, has been skewed to make it seem as if there's a huge shortage and/or problem..
we just have no way of knowing what's meant by 10k/day.. none.
and it's such a ridiculously low number for the way many will read it as (omg- there will only be 325,000 phones available in November
(imo)
I'll admit that 10k/day sounded like a crazy low number when I first heard it.
And when it's the only number you hear... it's what you go with.
Let's hope it's complete hogwash and that Apple can (somewhat) keep up with launch demand.
But they never do... so...
I guess we'll know when shipping estimates start saying "January 2018" on October 28...
I sent out all a poll a few weeks ago, asking users how long before the OLED iPhone (at the time, we did not yet know the X moniker) ship dates slipped to Jan. '18. My vote was under 1 min. And now Jan. might be some of the early shipments. #crazy
So at what point do people wait a few more months until Apple is taking preorders on the iPhone Xs (or whatever)?
I mean, a March '18 ship date is not out of the question. And if so, might riddle orders seeing that ship date, canceled. Yeah?
Maybe I need to post a new poll...
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Can you tell me when did the S8+ get released with the Note 8? There releases are several months apart to put emphasis on the Note 8 being the better flagship device.
update: nevermind
Ya, I am still waiting for one place I was on a list to call me about the iPhone 7 Plus from last year around this time LOL.
This article does not make sense to me as a week ago Ming was saying that they're already producing, but at ~10k per day.
If this thing does not even start getting produced until mid-Oct, the launch is virtually non-existent come Nov 3rd, and the pre-order will be more than disappointing, it'll be outright aggravating.
This one should be taken with a grain of salt.
Exactly. Wait times for an iPhone X of months and months are a very real possibility. Strap yourselves in for an extremely bumpy launch season.