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

iPhone X Supply Revised Lower Yet Again as TrueDepth System Still Faces Production Issues

It's great that Apple is willing to take such supply chain risks to include powerful and advanced features-- True Depth being 2.5 years ahead of the competition. Glad they're not opting for the easy route here and really pushing to offer something special.
 
  • Like
Reactions: szabogabor10 and ILikeAllOS
filmantopia said:
It's great that Apple is willing to take such supply chain risks to include powerful and advanced features-- True Depth being 2.5 years ahead of the competition. Glad they're not opting for the easy route here and really pushing to offer something special.
Click to expand...

WOW. That's some great reasoning why releasing a product before it's stable and working is OK. Great spin on a bad situation from someone who wants to be first in line to buy it!
 
  • Like
Reactions: ABC5S, DJ_Rosko, deany and 1 other person
BeefSupreme said:
What about cutting edge tech being hard to produce relates to a compromise?
Click to expand...

How about including TouchID along with their beta, experimental, yet-to-be-reliably made facial recognition as the compromise? Time will tell on Nov 3 if Apple gets it right, but I'm guess there will be bad news.
 
unobtainium said:
Estimates aren’t moving around, they’re moving consistently in one direction: down, down, down.
Click to expand...

Movement is movement. But I have read other reports stating the phone ramp up has marginally increased. But Kuo's original report stated 10K per day so even the 36m production to the end of 2017 is an increase, not decrease. Analysts are just trying to find (guess) the sweet spot where they might be closest to the actual number for bragging rights.
 
  • Like
Reactions: HallStevenson and ILikeAllOS
dmylrea said:
You do realize the phone is supposed to be in consumers hands in 22 days? They're supposed to manufacture 36M phones in 22 days and they haven't even perfected the TD camera and 3D facial recognition? Seems "clear" to me there will be compromises in the first round of phones.
Click to expand...

They are struggling to perfect the manufacturing process, not the technology.
 
  • Like
Reactions: LinusR, BanjoSam, Enygmatic and 8 others
OMG , I was not buying one, though with these shortages and it becoming almost impossible to get, I WANT ONE!

Think the marketing ramp up is working ;)
 
Last edited:
  • Like
Reactions: szabogabor10
shyam09 said:
My prediction: We're (folks on MR, because we're awesome) getting our iPhones on launch day.
Click to expand...
I personally cannot be much more prepared or more practiced ordering at 3 am....so if I can’t get it launch day this year, then there is a real issue. If I get it launch day, it’s buisness as usual. Source: Myself! iPhone on launch day 6 years in a row through online ordering (including IPhone upgrade debacle last year).
 
  • Like
Reactions: DJ_Rosko
filmantopia said:
It's great that Apple is willing to take such supply chain risks to include powerful and advanced features-- True Depth being 2.5 years ahead of the competition. Glad they're not opting for the easy route here and really pushing to offer something special.
Click to expand...
What a ludicrous nonsense.
Shareholders dislike risk, stock exchanges will chastige it, and customers dislike disappoinments
Any responsible company would have either made iPhone X a limited release or - when mainstream - secured provisioning in a professional manner.
If this rumor holds, and the supply chain would indeed be inadequate for huge volumes, it it is inexcusable amateurism at center stage.
 
Last edited:
  • Like
Reactions: xsimplyjosh and IG88
dmylrea said:
You do realize the phone is supposed to be in consumers hands in 22 days? They're supposed to manufacture 36M phones in 22 days and they haven't even perfected the TD camera and 3D facial recognition? Seems "clear" to me there will be compromises in the first round of phones.
Click to expand...

The 36M phones is by the end of 2017, not 22 days. And not having 'perfected' the TD camera/3D FR could simply mean they're getting low yields. Regardless, it's all rumors at this point and until Nov 3 comes, nothing is clear. You can make your assumptions, but you can't pass them off as being clear.
 
  • Like
Reactions: CB1234, xsimplyjosh, paulkaliciak and 1 other person
Still not very worried. Lots of talking heads out there with motives that always look to push the needle one way or another. I am sure there are some delays, but I am confident those who order in the first 5 minutes will get theirs on launch day. Now if Apple comes out and delays the release day (highly doubtful), then I'll listen.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Gameboy70
whether these stories are true or not, there are a lot of them. Either it is speculation because something new must be hard, or it is based on genuine information from the supply chain.

But it is odd that - if true - Apple still went ahead and announced a launch in 55 countries. Why not manage your risk and do a softer launch in fewer countries?
 
  • Like
Reactions: TexasErin
filmantopia said:
It's great that Apple is willing to take such supply chain risks to include powerful and advanced features-- True Depth being 2.5 years ahead of the competition. Glad they're not opting for the easy route here and really pushing to offer something special.
Click to expand...

By the time this thing is readily available it’ll only be two years.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Blackstick
Why don't they just make a single unit- just quantity 1 iPhone X- sell it for $50 Billion and call it a day? Production costs of that one would be relatively nill. Profitability claims & spin would be incredible. And we could all do our thing: "...but who makes the most profitable phone" and literally mean singular (unit) for a change. Apple could spin, "we're selling them (it) as fast as we make them (it)."

Next quarter, roll out one more unit, sell it for $50 Billion and call it a day again.

Repeat.

Repeat.

Announce iPhone 11 Magical Super Pro Edition, "thinner & lighter" but "same great battery life" and only $100 Billion per unit due to pressing constraints in supply and manufacturing challenges.

If Apple could afford the extra cost without going bankrupt, make the 4 units per year in the U.S. so they can spin "for the first time ever, these are (it is) 100% made in America" too:eek: Yes, now I'm talking crazy. Must maximize margin. Corporation profitability is all that matters to the corporation and us buyers.

Why not cease manufacturing entirely to eliminate those costs and just ask the faithful to send money anyway? Profit maximization realized. No more supply constraints with no supply and nothing to fulfill. Record profits to spin + "We're selling nothing as fast as we can not make anything"... and maybe even "thinnest & lightest (nothing) ever"... "so thin & light you can't even see what you are buying".

All ;)
 
  • Like
Reactions: ilovemykid3302012, xsimplyjosh and IG88
I can wait. Honestly this is more of a "got to have the latest and greatest" more than replace an ageing phone. I have a 7 that works just fine...albeit I bought it used because my 6 went down the sh*tter.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Blackstick
Sounds like the "X" is going to be quite the winner, it's getting expensive to be an early adopting guinea pig for dodgy new tech replacing perfectly decent existing tech! :rolleyes:
 
  • Like
Reactions: ABC5S and 5105973
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