iPhone 8: Only 4 million units ready for launch at first marketing
Cupertino’s new top range will arrive in September but only for a few elected. Indiscretions speak, only 4 million units worldwide, when Apple usually launches with more than two available drives.
The new iPhone 8 could be not only the most beautiful and performing iPhone ever made by Apple, but also the most sought-after and unmanaged by the users, at least in the first few weeks. Indiscretions from Asian factories actually seem to confirm news that a few weeks ago, leaked Apple’s difficulty in finding OLED displays in important quantities for a problem-free launch.
In this case, the latest news shows that the new iPhone 8 will be up to 4 million units in September, much lower than it usually sells in just one-week Apple.
According to sources inside the Chinese assembly chains, the latest generation iPhone could be sold with the dropper and who knows if Apple in this case will have to repeat the old question of countries in the first or second band for the purchase of the smartphone in times different.
The OLED display that the new iPhone should own is currently only manufactured by Samsung that has to keep production high for itself but also for other companies that require it. This probably led to a delay for Apple, which could be launched at the launch of September with even an amount of iPhone 8 less than half as the company usually sold in just one week since the launch of smartphone past.
The previous reports had hypothesized the strong success of the new iPhone 8, which we know should be in the eyes of users with completely renewed design thanks to the presence of a completely borderless OLED display and thus able to significantly increase the usage area by the user.
This would outline a sale in the last months of 2017 even by 50-60 million units that would now look far from those that Apple could actually produce in the same period. A delay that could in part compromise smartphone sales especially with users who have recently become accustomed to not having much to wait for to get a new device.
Measures taken by Tim Cook’s company as a rise in staff at Foxconn, Pegatron, and Wistron factories may not have been enough to reduce the risk of a delay in delivering the new smartphone.
Clearly, this could only affect the iPhone 8, the only Apple smartphone with OLED display. For other iPhone 7s and iPhone 7s Plus, the Cupertino company should have a normal LCD display that will not have any supply issues and will be in September with a regular number of units ready to be purchased.
