“Apple’s iPhone 8 may be facing delays, according to a rumor published Wednesday,” Todd Haselton reports for CNBC.
“Apple is expected to launch its new high-end iPhone 8 in September, when it normally releases the latest iteration of the device,” Haselton reports. “But a recent report from the Chinese language Economic Daily News suggests that the launch may not happen until October or November.”
“Technical issues related to the lamination process of curved OLED panels, and the adoption of a 3D sensing system may cause the delay of the new iPhone devices, said [EDN],” Steve Shen reports for DigiTimes.
“Market sources said that they are watching the pull-in of orders for passive components from the iPhone’s supply chain to see whether production of the new iPhone devices is on track, said the paper,” Shen reports, “adding that the supply chain should begin to pull in orders for passive components such as MLCCs in June.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: It’s not so easy to make enough OLED panels at acceptable yield rates for a phone that will actually sell in serious volume.
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Sorry, DigiTimes I always take with a grain of salt. Market Apple-haters and short sellers always gin up this FUD BS before every new iPhone release……6 doomed, 6s doomed, 7 doomed…..
Bull$h!t!!!
Of course you really mean Bear$hit!!
Savvy option dealers will be placing their bets on the inevitable drawback after a month of upward trending stock price. Currently the estimate is around 5%, so only modest gains to be had. Beyond that you will need some serious money to play with.
It’s important to remember AAPL is not Apple Inc.
Great comment Bill – same shit articles every year @ this time !!!!!!
So Samsung Display cant do what they have been doing for its parent for some time now. Yeah that sounds interesting.
Does Samsung Display also perform the lamination process that is mentioned in the article? I thought they just provided the OLED display component.
Pipeline Timmy the inventory channel genius who can’t seem to ship products on time or with nearly enough volume.
Yeah yeah, pull the other one. The same “reports” said the 7 was going to be late too.
Is it just me or is it a bit too coincidental that this story came out during the Samsung S8 preorder period? Nah, I’m just being paranoid, right?
The usual, take one supposed valid data point and extrapolate to put Apple in negative light.
Rinse, repeat.
Which if true, really means that you won’t be able to get a phone until July 2018 due to shortages that continually plague Apple’s pipeline. Business as usual.
I don’t get curved. Double that if the curve will cause material ship delays.
I’m going to wait for what’s real. But indeed, this sounds like “Gee Whiz!” tech at the expense of ship-on-time.
Maybe someone at Apple thought the S7 Edge idea was good. Samsung seems to be going full bore with the edge curved screen though on the entire Galaxy S8 line.
I think you may be right. It also has ‘Gee Whiz!’ factor, which in my opinion is BFD. 😛
The important part being “If True …”, and it probably isn’t true as the rumour comes via DigiTimes.