The iPhone X is on everyone's lips and now much more since on October 27, the reservations of the device that too many people are waiting officially begin. Too many people for the few units that Apple expects to have for those dates. Much has been said about the manufacturing problems of the iPhone X, and with the passage of time we will see if the rumors and reports were correct.
Bloomberg is a financial software and data analysis company and in one of its columns, Tim Culpan, has carried out an analysis of the entire iPhone X manufacturing ecosystem, blaming, above all, two elements: suppliers and Apple itself.
The urge to follow the leader, consistency, and vendors of the iPhone X
The iPhone X is not for sale yet and all we can talk about in a few weeks will be speculations, forecasts and forecasts on how sales and production of a revolutionary device like this will evolve. Culpan began his column by analyzing the history of the iPhone X.
Apple finally decided to install the screens OLED on iPhones. But what the Cupertino did not take into account is that the supply of OLED panels was unlimited, although there are chances that they believed that Samsung could increase production to supply the two companies. Of course, they were wrong.
Competitive innovations made Apple choose two evolutionary paths: a frameless design and a new unlocking method. At the beginning of development, they had to find a way to integrate Touch ID into the screen, an aspect that was eventually discarded due to its complexity. Probably Face ID it was going to be an asset of the iPhone X, but with the failure of Touch ID It went on to become one of the fundamental pillars of the device.
We have been able to verify all this after the late for device reservations, the different reports from the iPhone production factories, but above all a series of basic elements which, when analyzed together, allow us to analyze Apple's evolution in thinking about the iPhone X.
We currently know that the elements with which the iPhone is created have considerable complexity, and that the manufacturing processes have had to be modified, in addition to suppliers cannot supply ingeneous quantities of parts so quickly it requires Apple, making it a slow process that could be tough for Cupertinos in a Christmas sales season opening in a few weeks.