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iPhone's Summer Production Glitches Create Holiday Jitters (wsj.com)
Yoko Kubota, Tripp Mickle, and Takashi Mochizuki, reporting for WSJ: Apple's new iPhone, which is expected to be unveiled Tuesday, was plagued by production glitches early in the manufacturing process this summer, according to people familiar with the situation, which could result in extended supply shortfalls and shipping delays when customers start ordering the device later this month (alternative source). New iPhones are typically in short supply when first released. But if shortfalls of the new phone extend beyond the initial sales period, which is expected to begin September 22, they could weaken analysts' and investors' projections for sales in the crucial holiday period. The production glitches led to a setback of about a month in the manufacturing timetable. Foxconn, the Apple contractor that assembles iPhones, has been ramping up production at its manufacturing complex in Zhengzhou, China. The company is paying bonuses to employees who can help bring new hires on board at its Zhengzhou plant, which Foxconn said in June employs about 250,000 people.
So it looks like many iPhone users are just going to have to keep using their current phone that they probably just recently upgraded to just a little longer then. Oh noes! How horrific!
Or perhaps this will get at least a few off the constant upgrade treadmill at last when they realize the world didn't end just because they can't get the latest shiny nao.
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Oh no! Forget about Irma. This is a REAL emergency! To alleviate this problem, let's start the holiday season on the 4th of July instead of Labor Day. Better yet you should start it on Valentine's Day. Oh hell, just make it all year, like campaign season.
I predict that this year the demand for shiny new electronic gadgets will be less, simply because the economy (real economy, not the Fed-reported propaganda) is bad. People have no money and they're up to their eyeballs in debt (at record levels now).
Don't believe me? Box office receipts and retail numbers are tanking this year, because ordinary people have less disposable money (even as easy Fed monetary policy is keeping equity/real estate prices at record highs)
Also not helping is Apple's (and Samsung's) insistence that useful, proven technology that works well (fingerprint scanner / Home button) must be discarded so they can make the screen fill up the entirety of the phone. What's gonna take the place of the fingerprint scanner? Face recognition. Except that for face recognition to work, you have to bring the phone up to the correct angle in front of your face, and your face can't be covered in shaving cream or green beauty mud or anything else. Oh and you can't be in bed with your face in the pillow while unlocking your phone now, you have to be make yourself presentable enough for the facial recognition to work.
These supply shortfalls are related to increased labor and environmental regulation by leftists.
This is China. What labor and environmental regulations are you babbling about?
"Once in 1000 year" hurricanes every other week, North Korea popping off H bombs, and now iPhone shortages. Oh the humanity
You sound bitter, cupcake.
- Creimer
How are these people not yet deported?
But they're literally a communist state, of course they're leftist. Politics in its entirety can be explained by a simple left/right dichotomy -- right? It's like you don't even read 99% of facebook and/or youtube comments.
(But what does that mean for Russia, AC's other punching bag? They used to be communist aka super-mega-cereal-lefty, but now they're not. Are they now on the right? I'm so confused)
Trivia: which president created the EPA, and which party was he from? Hint: his last name ends in 'ixon'.
If it's actually announced and released for sale, it will be a year early. They are also rumored to be releasing an update iPhone 7s. So there will be plenty of phones. Apple will continue to take over 90% of all mobile equipment profits.
Oh unless you're someone who has to have the latest right away - then you might be sad. You could always get a new Samsung if you want to take that risk. But then you'd have to use Android and have a craptastic experience.
Movie receipts are down because Hollowood continues to dig itself deeper in the same hole of crap it started digging years ago.
The economy by most other indicators is ticking up. Yes savings rate is down a bit at the moment but consumer confidence is still pretty high.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Trivia: which president created the EPA, and which party was he from? Hint: his last name ends in 'ixon'.
Thomas Dixon? He was an author, not a president.
You sound like an idiot. But hey; keep copy and pasting that line if it makes you feel good.
How will the collective self worth of the isheep deal with this tragedy? What can we do to help these poor, poor people.
When I was a kid, I had to wait 4-6 weeks for our Little Orphan Annie decoder rings, AND WE LIKED IT THAT WAY. Drink your Ovaltine, er, Koolaid, kids!
I predict that this year the demand for shiny new electronic gadgets will be less, simply because the economy (real economy, not the Fed-reported propaganda) is bad.
Demand may be less but I don't think it's for the reasons your stating. During the great recession, iPhone sales were booming. I'm not an Apple fan by any measure, but they do a pretty good job of getting people to spend money they don't have.
If this isn't a textbook example of spreading FUD, I don't know what is!
Thanks, Samsung!
Sure hope the BATTERIES in the Galaxy Note 8 DON'T EXPLODE!!!!\
Back atcha!
Do they get to keep the bonus if the new hire jumps out a window?
da fuq r u smokin i wan sum.
where do you stick it now that they removed the headphone jack?
I predict that this year the demand for shiny new electronic gadgets will be less, simply because the economy (real economy, not the Fed-reported propaganda) is bad. People have no money and they're up to their eyeballs in debt (at record levels now).
Only in the US.
The rest of the world is doing just fine, at least as fine as last year, especially China which has GDP growth similar to previous years. The iPhone sales would be just fine, as long as Apple can make them fast enough.