yea, why use that awful render..but it better be something special for me to buy it. I want it to at least beam me up to some hot girls room i've just met.
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Initial iWatch Shipments May Be Limited Due to Sapphire Issues, Half of Devices May Use Glass Displays
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yea, why use that awful render..but it better be something special for me to buy it. I want it to at least beam me up to some hot girls room i've just met.
Regarding the actual product. Looks like Kobe is "collecting" some data for Apple ;-) He wears some kind of a device on his arms during his China trip...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZzMua3bdH0#t=28
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZzMua3bdH0#t=28
I find this incredibly hard to believe. Having looked fairly closely at GTAT and their production methods and capacities - ramped up heavily since Apple became involved - producing sapphire watch crystals in massive quantities would seem to be fairly straightforward for them.
I could perhaps be convinced that producing massive quantities both crystals and iPhone screens might lead to some undersupply, but this seems to me to be yet another case of an analyst having to churn out something to meet his employer's briefing publication date.
I could perhaps be convinced that producing massive quantities both crystals and iPhone screens might lead to some undersupply, but this seems to me to be yet another case of an analyst having to churn out something to meet his employer's briefing publication date.
Is that a joke? It's not April fool, neither hacked, right? 
It funny this can consider to be a rumor. LOL glass?? be common sense man.. haha
I would rather believe it a bit more if there is not cover LOL
It funny this can consider to be a rumor. LOL glass?? be common sense man.. haha
I would rather believe it a bit more if there is not cover LOL
Yes, any product going into such large scale production is bound to hit some problems. These can get exaggerated into "major delays".
Sometimes that will be true, e.g. Intel with Broadwell, often they're just hiccups or inventions.
Yeah. Apple delays product for over a year to improve battery life, build a sapphire plant and in the 11th hour, they decide to let some watches go out half baked. :roll eyes:
Some of the rumors are getting silly. Like stupid political attack ads during an election year, it will all be over soon.
Some of the rumors are getting silly. Like stupid political attack ads during an election year, it will all be over soon.
Why do all analysts suggest problems. What does it have to be a problem? I don't get it? Am I missing something that because apple hasn't already brought it to market there are major issues like Apple is dumb and can't solve it's problems?
Nope this is a case of a company doing R&D and refining a product before it launches! There are no problems it's called manufacturing, you can't just make a product you need to tool, and design the steps, the product is like 1% of these so called problems the rest is purely designing the machines and processes you never get them right the first time ever! That might be acceptable for other makers but there are no reasons to release a product early with defects.
Sorry KGI but you're wrong they will all have the same display unless there are more than one model, knowing apple they will start will one and refine it until the market is there for more models.
Nope this is a case of a company doing R&D and refining a product before it launches! There are no problems it's called manufacturing, you can't just make a product you need to tool, and design the steps, the product is like 1% of these so called problems the rest is purely designing the machines and processes you never get them right the first time ever! That might be acceptable for other makers but there are no reasons to release a product early with defects.
Sorry KGI but you're wrong they will all have the same display unless there are more than one model, knowing apple they will start will one and refine it until the market is there for more models.
If Apple ever starts regularly making "limited edition" configurations then we can all agree it will have officially jumped the shark and left innovation at the dock.
But for now a "supply shortage" according to an analyst using incomplete data and lots of conjecture does not make for one, especially when the product for which the parts are scarce isn't even in production yet.
If you think that is a "brilliant" strategy then you obviously didn't go to business school or ever run a business. Their is no profit to be had in selling out of stock product. A competent company with a desirable product doesn't need to pull an amateurish "short supply" game. I don't think Apple is going to put all it's corporate muscle behind an "iWatch" if it doesn't think it can't sell the heck out of them because its a good product on its own merits. The hype will come w/ "opinion leaders" wearing them, seeing them on TV shows and movies, etc.., just as they used iPods back in the day.
A company's goal is to sell as much product for the quarter as possible, not take backorders. Sometimes backorders are unavoidable, such as when demand exceeds production capability. But to limit sales of regular merchandise as marketing strategy is the equivalent of the company not being in business. We all saw what happened when Apple announced the 27" iMac wouldn't ship in quantity until Jan '13 because of production issues -- it put a damper on Q1 earnings. I don't think Cook wants to repeat that moment. Here is a refresher: https://www.macrumors.com/2013/04/2...referred-to-announce-the-new-imac-in-january/
Well, only if you follow rumours sites. Most people are probably not aware that Apple are planning anything in the watch area let alone what kind of schedule to expect. Apple themselves haven't actually announced anything, so strictly speaking there is no delay and nothing is late.
The reason for the two suppliers is to keep costs down (competition) and to ensure the number of displays are plentiful.
I couldn't agree more.
I have to agree with a previous poster, the watch will have one material for the crystal, not two due to issues.
Actually, I bought a maxed out 15 Retina Pro with the "cheesy" LG display and I have, after 4 months, yet to see even the slightest evidence of ghosting. I even tried inducing it, and zippo.
I think the concept that certain issues get blown out of proportion because only people with problems actually post about it is very true.