Apple making 800,000 Iphones a week
APPLE IS CURRENTLY asking its Taiwanese assembly plant to churn out 800,000 Iphones every week according to Tech Crunch.
Foxconn the company which puts together the extraordinarily popular handset is currently working "above full capacity" leading to fears that there may be problems with quality control.
Reports earlier this week have already voiced concerns over the quality of case mouldings in some models, mainly the white version.
Apple sold six million first generation Iphone in just over a year. If Foxconn continue to churn the Second Coming of Mobile Telecoms handsets at its current rate, it will produce over 40 million units in the first year alone, smashing expectations.
But that would be adding two and two and getting four which we all know never makes sense in the fickle word of Tech.
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Are people in INQ working "above full capacity"? There is evidence that _there_ are problems with quality control.
I sure am glad I didn't buy the original because if I had, I'd be right peeved at the new one's much lower price. Of course I'm not buying the new one either. But I sure would have felt I'd been ripped off. Oh well...glad I'm such an idiot.
well peeps the picture has just changed BIG STYLE, M$ITE has seen the light wooooooot O_O enter stage right MIDORI, M$ is going virtualisation, a lean and hungry OS, windoze, whatever flavour is for the recycle bin, see here :- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7540282.stm yippeeeeeeee bout time too :O) get ya teeth into this INQ !!!! you heard it here first folks !!!!! O_O beat the register to it woooooooot :O) methinks the fruity toy DROIDMATRIX might have to rethink the bigger picture lol :O)
800,000 units? A week? That's 40,000,000 iPhones. Unless Apple plans on selling these suckers for $100 a pop, I don't see how they'll sell that many (unless they're making them all immediately then ceasing production.) That said, at least we know where all those chips went... Also, on an unrelated note, I wish you guys would drop the comment format and go back to "Letters." It was a weekly (or bi-weekly) bag of laughs and truly informative comments, rather than the useless wibble that's typically written by the great unwashed.