Manufacturers for Next Generation iPhone Say It‘s ’Complicated and Difficult to Assemble’
- Posted on July 6, 2011 at 3:23pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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Apple has already placed orders for key components used in the next-generation iPhone, which is expected to be thinner and lighter than the iPhone 4 and sport an 8-megapixel camera. As of now the next iPhone is expected to launch in the third quarter, but that timeline could get delayed considering the manufactuer will need to improve its yield rate as the new phone is described as “complicated and difficult to assemble.”
“Last month, Hon Hai Chairman Terry Gou said at the company‘s annual general meeting that the yield rate of Apple’s touch-screen devices hasn’t been satisfactory, which weighed on the company’s profitability.
‘The touch-screen devices are so thin. It’s really difficult to install so many components into the iPhones and iPads,’ Mr. Gou said. ‘We hope to raise the yield rate and volume in the second half which will help improve our gross margin.’”
The iPhone has led cellphone industry innovation since the device was introduced in 2007. Apple said in April that it sold 18.6 million iPhones in the fiscal second quarter ended March 26, more than double that of a year ago. That figure was also 15% higher than the December quarter, which is typically Apple’s strongest period since it is fueled by holiday sales.
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streetpilot
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 2:42pmLets hope this one makes phone calls.
Report Post »bnelms
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 7:59amCall me silly but I like mine put together
Report Post »Duane Ferguson
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 2:47amOnce you get past the marketing and the breathless hyperbole of those who are influenced by the marketing, you’ll find the iPhone is not such a great phone. No, I‘m not impressed by the seemingly endless array of mostly useless ’apps’. I’ll stick with my Nokia, thanks. At least that does not force me to use proprietary software to manage my music and other files.
Report Post »ebill
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 11:55pmApple makes great products but they are highly overpriced. If it’s complicated and difficult to assemble, then it should be a real pleasure when it won’t work. Try the HTC EVO. The only thing you can say about an iPhone is i got one!
Report Post »Raoul
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 3:55pmLatest version hard to assemble? has anyone out there tried their had at repairing a iPhone 4? I literally needed a jeweler’s loupe to see the screws to put it back together.
Report Post »Boo HaHa
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:19pmI take them apart and put them back together everyday, not to bad if you do a lot of them.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 10:36amHow do you borrow 200 billion against $1 and make 10 billion doing it
Posted on July 8, 2011 by maxkeiser| 5 Comments
1 – Use an insolvent balance sheet – backed up by a fiat printing press to loan money to bankrupt investors – to buy ‘insider-stock’ in a company that has zero barriers to entry.
2 – Use that borrowed money to float 50 billion worth of I.O.U.’s in said company – while simultaneously pressuring regulators to scotch current laws and to write new laws eliminating any legal blowback.
3 – Buy shares yourself – in this ‘privately listed’ item in question on an unregulated, newly created ‘insider stock exchange’ to pump up the valuation to $85 billion.
4 – Simultaneously underwrite a sister enterprise that makes a secondary market in ‘virtual currency’ that buys and sells virtual properties amongst ‘friends’ as part of a next generation Ponzi scheme – overlapping both balance sheets of pre-IPO – but count them separately – and never mention the double accounting to clients.
5 – Take the company public – ladder up stock post IPO to a 200 bn. valuation – selling as much as you can before the bubble pops.
6 – Park billions out of reach of the angry mobs and blame the ‘uncertainty’ of the market for the whole affair.
7 – Wait ten years and repeat the whole thing again – but don’t forget to spend a few hundred thousand on the election campaigns of Congress so that no regulators snoop aroun
Report Post »Aerocog
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 1:20pmDo we really need another iPhone?
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 11:06amYawn, if it wasn’t for morons that are willing to pay any price for these crappy phones, we would actually have some good fast phones for good prices, but like in so many markets, morons have caused inflation and stagnation in the cell phone market.
Report Post »Dan A14 50
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:34amto Midwest Blonde
Report Post »I use a track phone buy 450 minutes and it doubles to 900 with a year contract $98card +$29 for phone. Minutes do not expire for the year and .3 min for text.But I still have a land line.
AmeriCat
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 3:14am“Complicated and difficult to assemble”…?
Is that due to all the new devices that will be installed…to spy on us?
Report Post »miles from nowhere
Posted on July 6, 2011 at 11:55pmMay as well scrap this idea, these phones are causing brain tumors, the cell phone industry is doing everything it can to hold back this fact.
Report Post »Mosell
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 2:03pmFunny no one ever goes after the Thousands fo RADIO stations bombarding your body with Radiation (Radio waves are radiation) 24 hours a day not to mention the HAM radio operators, or TV stations or XM/Sirius Radio or GPS Satellites. All of these produce radio waves (Radiation).
Report Post »Judeo_Christian
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 4:08pmMosell, Ham Radio, Comercial Radio, etc. are not mentioned because of the frequency(ies) that they use. Typically, the higher the frequency, the more hazardous. However, Radio Frequency (RF) can be dangerous at any frequency, but it is a ratio of Frequency, Output Power, and Frequency used. Your body absorbs natually some frequencies well (microwave), and other frequencies tend to pass through without affect.
You should consider your local neighborhood Ham Radio operator your friend. When cell towers, electricity, land lines stop working, Amateur Radio (Ham Radio) works. “Amateur” just means that we don’t get paid for what we do. We are highly technical and capable guys and gals who support the needs of our communities — hardly amateurs in that respect. Just ask the folks in Alabama and Joplin Missouri who we supported after the tragic tornados which devistated their communities.
Jay – W0AVE
Report Post »Observer
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 5:41amMosell visible light is radiation, what is your point? Every thing is bad for you? I hope and prey you are not using aluminum foil as a head gear.
Report Post »MrObvious
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 4:11pmThe average kitchen microwave oven leaks more radiation on you, at a normal distance, while popping corn (2-3 minutes) than your modern cell phone is likely to do, up close, over the course of your contract (2-3 years). So, if your really worried about such things, stand further away while cooking, and hold your phone away from your head while talking.
Report Post »looseyloo
Posted on July 12, 2011 at 1:56amMosell, most of us are not holding a radio tower up to our skull.
And there is nothing we can do about those other waves, since there is zero chance they will be eradicated. We can, however, control what we do with our own cell phones (Some of us can, anyway)
Report Post »audiemurphy
Posted on July 6, 2011 at 11:21pm“you can buy anything in this world with money”
Report Post »-Satan
normbal
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 11:46am“For it’s the LOVE of money that is the root of many evils.” – Jesus
Report Post »LiveNation
Posted on July 6, 2011 at 9:31pmMaybe they should stop assembling them overseas???
Report Post »Midwest Blonde
Posted on July 6, 2011 at 9:25pmMy question is – does ANY company make a plain old PHONE without all the bells and whistles? I’m not that addicted to the net that I need access all day long nor do I need a camera in the phone, since I have a nice digital camera….. all I want is a dialtone and space for storing a few numbers.
*shaking head*
Report Post »OH, I Get It!
Posted on July 6, 2011 at 7:44pmCustomers do not care if it is difficult to assemble. If you can’t do it, get out of the business.
Report Post »Banjo Bulldog
Posted on July 6, 2011 at 7:40pmActually it’s not okay
Report Post »fastfacts
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 12:03amI AM MAD AT AT&T FOR BREACHING THEIR CONTRACTS WITH…
I am using a program that tethers, sends a signal from my phone to my laptop so I can have internet access. I signed a contract with unlimited data. Soon after technology came out that allowed tethering. Soon after they decided to change everyone’s signed contracts, without permission, to say that they had to pay an extra $45 to tether. I can‘t pay that much and I shouldn’t have to, they can’t modify that my contract without my signature and acceptance. That is unethical.
AT&T LIKES TO DO THIS AND I HAVE NO RECOURSE, THEY WON’T DROP THE CONTRACT ALL TOGETHER WHICH IS MY OPTION FOR THEIR BREACH IN CONTRACT.
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Posted on July 7, 2011 at 8:35pmA new iPhone is coming out. I don’t even have an old iPhone yet.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 10:23amThe Apple I went on sale in July 1976 at a price of US$666.66,[3] because Wozniak liked repeating digits[4] and because they originally sold it to a local shop for $500 and added a one-third markup. About 200 units were produced. Unlike other hobbyist computers of its day, which were sold as kits, the Apple I was a fully assembled circuit board containing about 60+ chips.
Report Post »http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_I