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New Blurry Videos Potentially Show iPhone 8 on Production Line at Factory
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Americans are busy shooting and ramming cars into each other.
Chinese are busy in trade schools learning to become tool and die makers for manufacturing industries.
Because many of these leaks dovetail over time fitting a convenient Apple narrative that generates buzz, so ima guess the intent here was to show how the newly rumored “mirror” color gets a finishing wash. But ima guess further that, if our attentions werent 100% discussing video quality, then we would be realizing that all iphones get a little anti-chem scrub-a-dub-dub..
LOL. Apple proudly claims the iPhone 7 is manufactured using a "precision nine-step anodization and polishing process."
I'm sure this video is consistent with Apple's high quality marketing message.
It's amazing some people believe the leaks are deliberate.
doubt that such low quality video was recorded officially, it must be recorded with some hidden camera pen or something
I just want ONE leak of a part for an iPhone 8 plus, just one. Come on Apple!
Yes, yes, I know I know... I'm still hanging on to the hope after the homepod leak.
They wouldn't put that 6.5inch screen size in the firmware for nothing right?.....right....?
Yes, yes, I know I know... I'm still hanging on to the hope after the homepod leak.
They wouldn't put that 6.5inch screen size in the firmware for nothing right?.....right....?
You dont need to be. Facts remain regardless of what you think. I have been to China and have seen the extreme poverty in rural China first hand.
I honestly have't a clue in the world how a production line like this works.
This OnLeaks fellow seems to be fairly accurate in the past, so I just thought I would pass along the information.
I honestly have't a clue in the world how a production line like this works.
This OnLeaks fellow seems to be fairly accurate in the past, so I just thought I would pass along the information.
Seems like the Tweet was deleted. We don't know a lot of things such as the material or thickness of the chassis. Apple could be using the metal band around the phone as part of the coil.
The first frame of the second video shows reflections from the chassis. It seems too reflective and not uniform enough to be metal.
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Small details like the workers wearing caps with reflective patches - so cameras can do a headcount - also tell you this is not a basement operation.
This is what I was thinking. A phone with front and back glass would only have a metal frame around the middle, and these look like a full rear shell. Maybe iPhone 7s?
A) Make the Chinese government very nervous and/or B) Try to get to Europe via Russia. Perhaps another reason why the Chinese government is worried about the situation in North Korea, millions of potential workers for Samsung/Apple.
Lost all credibility right there.
Doubtful, but it wouldn't matter anyway for jobs like these, which would be done by robot almost anywhere else. Remember, Foxconn is like a decade behind Western manufacturers. Heck, they didn't even begin X-raying every board for bad solder joints until a few years ago... something that American factories have done since the turn of the century.
And, despite Tim Cook's clever wordplay a few years ago (talking about numbers that would "fill this room"), America has plenty of tool and die makers and industrial engineers.
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I am okay with no TouchID at this point and I am looking forward to FaceID. I think it could end up being much better if implemented properly.
Sure, Foxconn is a decade behind everyone else. Yet they're the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer with no sign of letting up. Let me know where this "anywhere else" is where die and toolmakers aren't necessary.
Foxconn didn't have the technology to X-ray, but Intel, Google, Apple, Nintendo, Toshiba, all trust Foxconn to build their products for the past two decades.
Apple is setting up four R&D centers in China.
The cognitive dissonance and denial is so heavy, it's no wonder things in the U.S. are where they are today.