Apple Orders 12 Million iPhones

Waqas writes "Apple has placed an order for 12 million iPhones to be built by a Taiwanese contract manufacturer, according to an analyst citing reports from Asia. The Chinese-language Commercial Times on Wednesday cited Taiwan-based sources within Apple's iPod component supply chain as saying the phone is due to arrive during the first half of next year."

Comments

Better them than Microsoft

[Lev13than]

Apple has placed an order for 12 million iPhones to be built by a Taiwanese contract manufacturer, according to an analyst citing reports from Asia.

Let's just be thankful that they aren't being designed by Microsoft. If they were, you could only talk to other Microsoft phone owners, and every number you called would get blocked after three calls or three days unless you paid extra to get it unlocked...

Re:I remember

[Tackhead]

> I remember when Apple was a computer company.

I remember when phones were used to talk to people.

(Git off my lawn!)

Re:I remember

[the_humeister]

I remember when apple was a fruit

and it would be BROWN.

[arcite]

Thats right. Brown.

Re:I remember

[Basehart]

You were lucky!

When I were a lad I'd have to walk two hundred miles to the nearest village with my legs tied together with barbed wire, find a rotten apple on the floor near Farmer Bob's apple cart, then take it one thousand miles over broken glass and rusty nails to grandma for her dinner.

Re:How will the iPhone fare?

[Tibor the Hun]

I take it upon myself to answer on behalf of the slashdot collective:
It depends if it has more space than Nomad or not.

So what's the catch?

[realmolo]

Everyone knows that Apple always does one stupid thing with every piece of hardware they sell. Something that isn't a deal breaker, but is annoying, and makes no real sense. With the Macs, it's their refusal to ship the things with 2-button mice. Withe the iPod, it's their refusal to include an FM tuner.

My guess is the iPhone will have no "7" button.

Steve hates the number 7.

Re:My LG has that multi-number icon deal

[byolinux]

I believed you up until you said wife.

Re:It's all about the interface

[Anonymous Coward]

The click wheel was such a nice addition to the iPod, they MUST incorporate that into the phone. I've got it! You could like spin the wheel around to select each number instead of typing them in. It will be so innovative...oh wait...