Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Initial iWatch Shipments May Be Limited Due to Sapphire Issues, Half of Devices May Use Glass Displays
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Everything Apple does these days is to get the big headline sales. They keep releasing right near the holidays, everyone panics to get it, and apple gets its "we've had the biggest weekend ever" headline.
IF Apple is coming out with Sapphire Glass for the iPhone 6s, a much larger surface area, it makes absolutely no sense they could not produce for a much smaller iWatch surface area.
While Sapphire Glass may not be ready for production yet, Apple will not have it for the iPhone and not the iWatch - if there even is an iWatch this fall. It may make sense all Sapphire Glass production is going into the 6s and the iWatches will have to wait.
While Sapphire Glass may not be ready for production yet, Apple will not have it for the iPhone and not the iWatch - if there even is an iWatch this fall. It may make sense all Sapphire Glass production is going into the 6s and the iWatches will have to wait.
Which is too bad since just about every other rendition I've seen looks like complete ass.
There's absolutely NO WAY that Apple is going to ship a new product with completely different watch crystals (clear watch face). NO WAY!
Either they'll all be glass (Gorilla glass, or whatever) or they'll all be sapphire. Period.
Mark
Either they'll all be glass (Gorilla glass, or whatever) or they'll all be sapphire. Period.
Mark
Every time we post an analyst's prediction, can we also post their previous predictions along with whether or not they were right or wrong?
Clever marketing tactic. The more difficult they make it to buy one the more desirable the iWatch will become and create a whole new "must have" craze intended to whip up hype and media interest which will in turn drive sales later on when they increase supply into the channel. It's exactly the same tactic they've successfuly employed with each new iPhone.
Apple uses more than one supplier for many of their components. With the macbook pros, you had a display panel lottery. Some people would get Samsung displays, some lg displays. Same with iPads, they had displays from more than one supplier. Same with the ssd in their laptops, some are Samsung, some are sandisk, etc. Not all apple products are equal.
I'd take no ghosting issues over color issues. I couldn't even swipe to switch desktops without getting a headache.
If you can't beat them just join them... time to double down on AAPL. win-win as far as I can tell.
Multiple models? Low-end gets glass? Apple has been known to hold better parts for flagship devices and use cheaper materials for more cost effective models.
I can hardly believe Apple has issues with making a sapphire cover for the iWatch. It's not difficult to make.
However, as a long term investor, AAPL has been dead money for two years now - dismal performance - and a 2% dividend is so so. At any rate, we will soon know about that pipeline.
take a breath. you are making negative comments about an unconfirmed product and unconfirmed potential issues about said unconfirmed product based on the say of an analyst whose job is to manipulate stock buys and whose source might be the lower regions of his own gastrointestinal track.
----------
it's called "I'm an analyst and I said some stuff that I had zero actual information about and now I am worried that I was wrong but I can't admit that so I'm going to make up rumors that there might be issues so things won't happen the way I said they would but it won't look like its my fault" syndrome
----------
Unless you have seen it, cause you work at Apple, you can't really say that now can you
I've got several real watches that use sapphire. Millions of watches are sold every year with sapphire crystals. How is it that Apple is having issues when literally no watchmaker in the world does?
There has to be something else that is going on.
There has to be something else that is going on.
I think you mean Samsung ? Apple has never brought any product to market before it's ready! Just go back for years on this site and see all the complaints for what is seen as dragging their feet or to slow upgrading or better yet, when is the new stuff coming already?? Doesn't sound like a comp that rushes product to market!
----------
Their is, no doubt!
Hopefully they'll know how to identify the ones with normal glass and the ones with sapphire.
It wouldn't be fair to charge customers the same amount of money for something with inferior specs.
It's like saying "Oops, we just ran out of all the 8 megapixel cameras, so we're going to put a 5 megapixel unit in the remaining devices".
It wouldn't be fair to charge customers the same amount of money for something with inferior specs.
It's like saying "Oops, we just ran out of all the 8 megapixel cameras, so we're going to put a 5 megapixel unit in the remaining devices".
lol supply shortages. Everything is always a supply shortage. I wonder when Apple will go the route of Nike's resellers and raffle off tickets to buy the new iphone/iwatch/whatever. Seriously every month Foot Locker sends me "Enter for your chance to buy a pair of Jordan Retro X Super Blahs!"