If you’re planning on getting and iPhone 5 when it launches in a few weeks, you might want to be proactive about pre-ordering, because Apple is allegedly having trouble getting enough screens.
A source told Reuters that Sharp, the maker of the screens, has fallen behind schedule. The screens are allegedly different from the screens in previous iPhones in that they are 30% bigger, thinner, and have the touch sensors built into the LCD. The current screen has a “touch layer.”
Sharp declined to acknowledge that Apple is a customer.
Computerworld said that each iPhone launch has resulted in more phones sold on the first weekend, and an analyst for Robert Baird speculated that this could be the biggest product launch of all time, let alone the biggest Apple launch of all time.
Sharp’s output of new iPhone displays lagging -source [Reuters]
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Time to lower the minimum working age in China to 12 so they can boost production of new Apple screens.
Oh joy, another prepublicity attempt b4 prelaunch. Please spread the news that there will be a “shortage” so more workers can leap out of windows and more people can pay more money to get the newest. Oh scarcity where forever art thou.
I doubt this source was Apple and I doubt it was for publicity. Get off your high horse and put away the Apple pitchforks.
I own apple products and there always seems to be a issue just before launch.
That’s kind of when you would have a publicly noticeable problem, is when you’re trying to make lots of them at once. You don’t tend to have launch problems when you’re not actually trying to launch anything.
I see what your saying. However, they arent really making them all at once. They are making them in the span of several months. Besides, looming scarcity, drives prices up and makes some people want the item more, right? A launch occurs when you send something out for the first time such as an iphone5 or a newly released video game.
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Quit drinking Apple Kool-Aid and read the “Steve Jobs and his wife approved”
bio of Steve by Walter Issacson. Everything we thought was true.
I read it, and yes he was a big jerk who belittled his employees and ignored his family, but his business decisions were almost always correct: iPod, iPhone, iPad, iTunes, Apple Stores, Next, Pixar, etc.
The most amazing iPhone yet
http://i.imgur.com/gBDpn.jpg
LOL
Have fun with TouchWiz and being carrier and HW maker locked from the true Android experience. And who knows when JB will be on it. Had this and a HTC One X and hated not having real Android and Android apps on there like Google Wallet.
1.Root.
2. Download a new launcher/flash a new rom.
3. 20 minutes later, happy.
Any idiot with two brain cells to rub together, who can read simple sentences can root, unlock, and customize any android phone very easily.
Jailbreaking an iPhone is far more difficult & complicated than rooting an android.
what? typing in ‘jailbreakme.com’ is harder than rooting?
Actually I looked up the procedure for rooting a Galaxy S3 and compared it to the Redsn0w iPhone jailbreak. Jailbreak is 5 steps, rooting is like 12 and involves nasty looking Unixy text windows.
http://www.broadbandgenie.co.uk/blog/20120829-how-root-samsung-galaxy-s3
http://www.jailbreaknation.com/jailbreak-ios-5.1.1-untethered-with-redsn0w-0.9.12b1-iphone-4s-ipad-3-ipod-touch
Seconded. After 3 years with iPhones (3GS and 4), I made the switch myself earlier this months with no regrets. Short of this one curing cancer, I don’t see myself going back to Apple’s devices anytime soon.
One thing though, that graphic missed the best part: You also don’t have to deal with %*#&ing iTunes.
I wish I could upvote this.
+1000 (sent from my S3)
Good one!
Maybe they should ask Samsung for a few screens. Oops, forgot that Samsung was on the top of the Apple sue everyone list.
Perhaps they can sue Samsung or Google or your mom since now they surely must have a patent on “Not getting stuff made/done in time.”
Announcement From Apple to Chinese Workforce from Steve Jobs (via seance):
“The beatings will increase in intensity until you make enough screens for the iPhone 5
And don’t think you can avoid them by committing suicide!!”
Anybody ever wonder why so many Apple things are white?
Especially those obnoxious cords?
It was Steve’s favorite color and to him it represented “purity”.
I wonder what the suicides in his Chinese factories represented to him.
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I see what you
did there.
What I find funny is that all the original iCrap was in white. I bought an iPod back in 2006, and you could NOT get a black ipod anywhere in my state. They had an abundance of white ones though. Now, it’s the white ones that are in high demand. Marketing ploy much, Apple? Yeah I think so.
Wouldn’t it be fun if they were sourcing these from Samsung!
iPhone 4 & 4s were sourced from Samsung. Samsung has been able to get Apple the volume they required in the past, but it seems the new screens will be coming from 3 new sources, possibly due to the Apple vs. Samsung kerfuffle? LG, Japan Display and Sharp. But Sharp hasn’t yet shipped any displays to Apple.
Is that a Foxconn QA employee in the picture?
Do they buy the screens from Samsung?
Only is Samsung is spelled S.H.A.R.P.
Meh… I’ll wait till the untethered jailbreak is confirmed.
But, I definitely need more memory in my phone.
[sarcasm]
I’m certain that the acolytes of the Cult of Apple will be able to pray sufficient screens into existence before it is too late. They are called to meet at the sunrise service on St. Jobs day next and will perform their miracle then. Alternatively, Apple will convince the faithful that devices without displays are kewl and patent the idea of the non-display and sue every company making any device without a display in a cooperative court.
[/sarcasm]
Its comments like this that makes me wish Consumerist had a reddit-like comment system, cause I’d upvote the shit outta this.
Maybe Sharp should have waited on firing 2000 employees until after they had enough iPhone screens?
I recently read (maybe here?) that FoxConn was improving working conditions.
Connection?
Are they going to blame that on Samsung too?
Eh, my main problem with Apple stuff is how damn clean it all looks.