The iPhone X was delayed because they can't make enough of them fast enough.
Do you REALLY believe this?
November 2016 rumours showed up about R&D for facial recognition. This doesn’t occur when suppliers cannot make production samples nor even full out production. Apple and Cook alone with Supply Chain has PLENTY of time to deliver mass production volumes for components.
Today Bloomberg is reporting Apple has asked supplies to reduce production volumes for components for iPhone 8. Analysts see this as a) low demand for the finished product, others see this as b) low component supplies matching high volume supplies so lets balance out order from apple.
The thing is why announce iphone x if the stock isn't ready?
The HYPE machine is in FULL affect!!
1) hype up new product.
2) price is exorbitant yet huge profit margins per unit.
3) sales team reaches out to Supply Chain and suppliers. Collusion about limited parts is discussed and agreed upon (purchases of supplies guaranteed through several years).
4) public news about Supply constraints.
This all equals to a product hat has immense launch quarter demand that Supply is NOt sufficient for ... this feeds fans into an upgrade frenzy.
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Andit's not just about a form factor change;
Guys please stop calling minor styling queues as a lack of form factor!
Form factor is a change in the form of the structure: Nokia Taco Phone (Ngage), Nokia Lipstick phone, Nokia Communicator series (9000 - E90). These are different form factors.
Every iPhone and Android device launched after 2012 - save for the QWERTY Motorola Droid on Verizon) has had the same physical form factor:
Vertical rectangle, front covered over 80% with glass, metal or plastic/polycarbonate external frame/case, internal vertical (in-line with screen) battery (removable or non-removable). So much more but man it’s the same form.
I place any iPhone in your hand with you blindfolded for 30mins prior to doing so you’d be able to tell which model based on significant design queues (metal, plastic, glass back, stainless steel sides, aluminum sides, camoheres edges, smooth edges), etc. Yet you’d hold each mode indistinguishably the same from one another: form factors!