“With Apple having opted for a September launch of its latest iPhone models for the last few years, the company is expected to follow that same pattern this year, and is allegedly restricting retail employee time off for that month with four months to go,” Neil Hughes reports for AppleInsider.
“Apple retail employees in Germany are said to have been restricted from taking vacation days in September, according to German-language Apple site iFun.de,” Hughes reports. “Citing an anonymous source, the site said it has ‘little doubt’ that the information is trustworthy, according to a machine translation.”
“Apple has chosen to unveil and launch its latest iPhone models in the fall since it debuted the iPhone 4S in October of 2011,” Hughes reports. “Starting with the iPhone 5 in 2012, the announcement and launch were bumped up slightly to September, and Apple stuck to the same timeframe in 2013.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
An earlier launch date provides some additional sales in the Fall quarter plus gives more time to fill the channel for Xmas.
Gives me some extra time to save up 🙂 can’t wait to get the new iPhone
Or it could be the fact that the part time employees go back to school leaving the retail stores short staffed during the busy back to school season.