“Earlier today, Taiwan’s Business Weekly reported that the amount of iPhone 6 orders is unprecedented, and it is in fact twice as large when compared to the iPhone 5,” Mihai Matei reports for G 4 Games.
“The publication has not specified whether the aforementioned orders are for the 4.7-inch or 5.5-inch model, so it could be that the report refers to both, combined,” Matei reports. “Either way, earlier rumors have indicated that shipments will be anywhere between 60 and 80 million, but Business Weekly now estimates that the first iPhone 6 batch / order will be of at least 68 million units.”
“The device(s) will allegedly enter mass production in July,” Matei reports. “Foxconn and Pegatron’s chairmen, Terry Gou and Tung Tsu-hsien respectively, have supposedly been notified by Apple in regards to the production plan since the second week of June.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Let the ramp up proceed unabated! A Beyond Category 5 typhoon looms for slavish copier Samsung. Finally, justice will be brutal. 🙂
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Sarah” and “Dan K.” for the heads up.]