“Have you marked your calendar in anticipation of a September release for the iPhone 8?” Philip Michaels reports for Tom’s Guide. “Better break out the eraser. It looks like Apple’s next smartphone will ship much later in the year than prior versions have.”
“That’s the indication from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who’s built a reputation for pretty accurate iPhone forecasts. His latest report, highlighted at 9to5Mac, suggests that mass production of an OLED iPhone won’t happen until October or November,” Michaels reports. “If that’s the case, it could mean the iPhone 8 won’t be widely available until later in 2017.”
“Kuo’s report is just the latest to forecast a late arrival for the iPhone 8,” Michaels reports. “Other analysts have forecast that the iPhone 8 may ship one or two months after Apple announces the new phone, as the company deals with production issues.”
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MacDailyNews Take: When the
starter pistol fires, sorry, squirt gun squirts, make sure you use the Apple Store App and that your payment method is all set up (the proper credit card registered and working with Apple Pay). Favorite your item(s) ahead of time. If you have multiple iOS devices, get them all ready to go. Have your Mac ready to go at the Apple Store, too.For past pre-order stress-fests, we’ve found that, for reasons unknown, the Apple Store app is faster. Use the Mac as a backup if need be. Get everything prepared ahead of time – you don’t want to be typing in credit card numbers with the clock ticking while Apple’s meager launch day supply dries up faster than a spilt beer in Death Valley.
SEE ALSO:
Ming-Chi Kuo: iPhone 8 mass production delayed to October/November – April 24, 2017
Apple signs two-year contract with Samsung for up to 92 million OLED iPhone displays – April 7, 2017
Apple may delay launch of flagship OLED ‘iPhone 8’ as late as November – April 5, 2017
Apple orders 70 million OLED panels for next-gen flagship iPhone – April 3, 2017
I’m stunned.
The Tim Cook train wreck never arrives on time.
Haven’t you heard? Nobody buys Apple products anymore because they are so popular. Just like nobody eats at a popular restaurant because you have to wait to be seated.
Since I am on a payment plan for 24 months, if the iPhone 8 is delayed much, it makes more financial sense for me to hold off until I own out right my 7 Plus and then get the iPhone 8.
Yeah like my iPhone7 Plus is a steaming pile that needs immediate replacement and new iP8 gratification. We’ll live. *Yawn*
Maybe an iPhone 5 or iPhone 6 owner would like to upgrade, you numb skull. Did you ever think of that, you pompous twit?
You must really have a nice way of ending all relationships in your life before they barely begin with your “winning!” manner.
The point is everyone will survive a month or two delay moron. I’ve been waiting almost 4 years for a Mac Pro I wanna buy. Patience is a mandatory virtue with Apple.
Aha! I suspected that your threat to quit them was a bluff. So was mine.
A goodly part of my professional life was spent, some might say squandered, wrestling recalcitrant systems into shape, and examining the wreckage when they failed; slogging through the debris like the NTSB examining plane crashes. That was largely my experience with Windows machines. Working with Macs was considerably more pleasant.
At retirement I had hoped to enjoy a personal renaissance replete with creative hobbies, — until Apple allowed the Mac Pro to languish like Miss Havisham’s wedding trousseau. There is shame in that, and madness, and absurdity. One expected more from a company once personified by the ferocious spirit of Steve Jobs.
Well not really. I was merely stating i had already been waiting 4 years. Patience apparently is what one must have in order to stay Apple loyal. Ridiculous for Apple to have let the Mac Pro languish and they really have no defense except incompetence, negligence, and dereliction of duty. All it took was checking in with pros now and again and say “how’re we doing?” For them too have to wait until they could sense something wrong internally without much external feedback is just sooooo out of touch. That’s scary for the future. Will the culture change to reflect this new belated new awareness?
I hear the PC horror stories and yet being part of the entertainment business there are scads of PC’s in use. A big 4K project I am working on is using PC’s without a problem or have big IT (as in none) support. I am still considering getting one. I am in need of replacing a 10 year old Mac Pro and so this add’ll wait is excruciating. I would’ve replaced years ago, just not with this 2013 MP. It’s cruel and unusual punishment.
I totally agree with you. This is not a little thing either, it’s a most grievous offense and spectacular corporate ineptitude.
My personal experience is bittersweet as I purchased the new Mac Pro in 2014 expecting the usual upgrades. But, because of their aggressively radical design philosophy, the expected processor upgrades never materialised. My dreams of invention evaporated.
My messages to Apple went unanswered, and I felt diminished at first, then concerned as I realised they were flailing, then after Phil Schiller held his clandestine meeting with tech pundits — angered by their prolonged inattention.
It’s a system shock when trust is displaced by suspicion.
And once trust is gone it’s hard to win it back than just by doing the right thing to begin with. Make no mistake this a major failure of Apple and shows where their priorities aren’t. It is a form of negligent betrayal through inaction, attention and apathy. Basically we don’t mean squat to them apparently.
Being an Apple customer has made me turn on them far more than any other reason. I’m firmly in the PC mindset, and I don’t want their IT attitude, and the need to be “in the fold” on everything from whether I have a port, an upgrade, to where I can get my software.
Mind you, where there vision is the default offering, I have no issue. I would like to be able to change those defaults.
…where their…
“Ships today” said Pipeline Timmy never.
more fodder for the landfill.
Specious argument.
Market share numbers prove that iPhones are far outnumbered by Android phones as a whole, and especially by the cheap ones that don’t last as long… not to mention cheaper ones use conflict minerals in many of their components.
If you actually cared about reducing waste or helping the environment, you’d be directing your ire at those, not taking cheap shots at the leader of the pack in environmentally conscious production (and recycling!) of mobile devices.
Is this somethin’ new from Apple?
Isn’t it the Apple way? The secret Apple sauce that make you want an Apple product sooooo bad?
Gesh!!!
If not this year, then next year. No one will die because they didn’t get their iPhone fix on time. I doubt there’s any company on the planet that can deliver high-demand products to every consumer who wants the product without any wait time. Production and assembly of high-end products take time in order to do a quality job. It’s the same every year for iPhones, so what’s the big deal.
Most companies would be happy to have the high demand for their products that Apple has. It’s better for any company to have high demand than product oversupply. Kuo is a knucklehead for always beating a dead horse.
How come the analysts aren’t all over Elon Musk’s case about customers who have pre-ordered Teslas having to wait many months for delivery? Has Tesla ever delivered cars on time? Not likely.
Consumers might wait but isn’t that the concern? That a portion of the consumers will switch in the meantime and Apple will have a larger ‘dip’ in sales for a prolonged period when they would normally show a sales spike.
Perhaps because Tesla customers know that a modern automobile has an order of magnitude more complexity than a cell phone. International regulations for cars are also a big step more involved too, which is a good thing.
Another thing that makes Tesla buyers slightly more patient is that they realise that Tesla is an actual manufacturer very busy scaling up a very sophisticated factory. With rare exception, Tim Cook has outsourced almost all Apple manufacturing. Not much challenge for Apple to pick up the iPhone to tell Foxconn to build more units. Much harder to build a lithium battery factory from scratch to make more batteries than any supplier has done yet.
When Apple gets back to building amazing computers themselves, and actually updating them every couple years with world class performance and user friendly features, then we can relax about Apple struggling. Right now the executives at apple are too busy watching Golden State games, schmoozing with celebs&fashion personalities, and writing endorsements for Chinese executives.
Spot on. The only thing the design chief at Apple has done in the past 3 years is xmas trees in hotels, picture books, and office decor.
Apple has shown pathetic leadership with zero attention on the Mac user since 2013.
Getting damn tired of this $hit. It’s like getting your fingernails pulled out with pliers, waiting on a new iPhone.
Order and wait. Wait some more. What? Wait yet some more. It’s coming tomorrow! Oh wait, nope, sorry, delayed again.
Amazing the amount of pain inflicted by Apple on its customers. Just goes to show having all the cash in the world doesn’t mean squat. They just cannot ever deliver in a smooth and timely manner.
I try not to waste any thought making plans based on leaks and analysts. I find it makes for a life with much less aggravation.
Apple will likely be attempting, as usual, to provide both internal and external innovations that keep it ahead of its competitors and provide a great user experience. Pushing the envelope for Apple means not only innovating, but manufacturing at a scale undreamed of by others. It is one thing to mass produce low end phones, it is quite another to mass produce technological breakthroughs. I appreciate Apple’s willingness to push the envelope when taking the easy road is what most other companies do.
Apple is now 2 generations behind Samsung.
Perhaps the next iPhone will be awesome and worth waiting for, but Apple has some catch up to do.
I think you have that reversed. And Apple isn’t interested in SamSplode innovation like spontaneous FLAME ON®.
I never believed this theory before, but watching Timiddy Tim’s usual cautious beancounter approach with no risk taking, plus putting high price to get their wallet fatter, I do believe Apple is purposely hyping up the new product. Timiddy Tim just wants to watch how the iPhone 8 sells, and only when he is comfy with the sales, he lamps up the production.
That’s the way he is, the Timiddy Tim way.
I am doing just fine with my iPhone 6 plus (not even “s”) and my 2008 MacPro with upgrades. ‘Might get an 8 a few months after shipping when the feeding frenzy dies down.
I’m seriously considering going with a Google Pixel XL. Rumors say that the Pixel XL 2 will be available in the fall. Given that I haven’t had a serious pro computer in over 3 years, it seems Apple is dropping the ball on everything. I have never owned any other phone than iPhone. I recently purchased a Google Home and Chromecast. I have the Ultra 4K version for 60.00. Apple wants 149.99. I’m just losing faith man…..