famousringo on 08 November 2012
| Cub said: Foxconn claims iPhone 5 demand is too high to handle 08 Nov, 2012, 1:41 pm IST | by Aaron Almeida | Smartphones Foxconn chief Terry Gou, in a recent interview, spoke about the iPhone 5, and claimed that Foxconn is not manufacturing iPhones as fast as Apple would like it to. According to a report by Reuters, the demand for iPhones is too high, and Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group said the company's flagship Hon Hai unit is having a hard time coping with it. Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou said, “It's not easy to make the iPhones. We are falling short of meeting the huge demand.” http://tech2.in.com/news/smartphones/foxconn-claims-iphone-5-demand-is-too-high-to-handle/565962 |
This tends to happen whenever Apple launches a major new chassis design. The new design will require parts to be machined to some strict new specification and it takes time to get the equipment tuned to run efficently. I remember that to build the aluminum shell of the original iPad, Apple ordered a huge shipment of prototyping machines. In other words, equipment designed for R&D, not mass production. It took some time for Foxconn to get them producing efficiently.
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