iPhone X shipments from Apple improve to 2-3 weeks in US
In a sign that production of the iPhone X is catching up with overwhelming demand, new orders for the iPhone X are now advertised to ship within two to three weeks, a one-week improvement from their previous estimate.
As of Wednesday afternoon, Apple's website now states that iPhone X orders in the U.S. arrive in less than a month. As of Tuesday, the estimated shipping time was slightly longer, at three to four weeks.
Apple immediately sold out of iPhone X inventory when the handset went on sale for an early November launch, but since then the company has been steadily improving shipping times, indicating that any manufacturing bottlenecks it faced before are now less an of an issue.
Despite improvements in shipping estimates, retail availability appears to remain sparse. AppleInsider conducted a quick check of major cities around the U.S. and could not find the 256-gigabyte space gray AT&T model currently in stock at any Apple retail locations.
It has been reported that the TrueDepth camera, which powers the Face ID biometric authentication on the device, is the primary bottleneck for production of the iPhone X. That, along with the OLED Super Retina HD display, are believed to be the main contributors to the device's premium cost, starting at $999 for 64 gigabytes.
Production bottlenecks combined with overwhelming demand have led supply chain insiders to suggest that Apple may not catch up with demand for the iPhone X until sometime in the first half of 2018. But with shipping times improving just a week and a half after the iPhone X launch, it's possible that Apple could catch up to demand more quickly than was expected.
Such improvements bode well not only for Apple and sales of the iPhone X, but also for future products. In particular, the company is rumored to bring Face ID to the iPad Pro in 2018.
Apparent iPhone X production issues are said to be the fault of the forward facing TrueDepth camera, which powers the Face ID biometric authentication system replacing Touch ID. The camera is said to be composed of two key parts dubbed "Romeo" and "Juliet," and "Romeo" parts are more difficult to manufacture, leading to an imbalance in supply.
As of Wednesday afternoon, Apple's website now states that iPhone X orders in the U.S. arrive in less than a month. As of Tuesday, the estimated shipping time was slightly longer, at three to four weeks.
Apple immediately sold out of iPhone X inventory when the handset went on sale for an early November launch, but since then the company has been steadily improving shipping times, indicating that any manufacturing bottlenecks it faced before are now less an of an issue.
Despite improvements in shipping estimates, retail availability appears to remain sparse. AppleInsider conducted a quick check of major cities around the U.S. and could not find the 256-gigabyte space gray AT&T model currently in stock at any Apple retail locations.
It has been reported that the TrueDepth camera, which powers the Face ID biometric authentication on the device, is the primary bottleneck for production of the iPhone X. That, along with the OLED Super Retina HD display, are believed to be the main contributors to the device's premium cost, starting at $999 for 64 gigabytes.
Production bottlenecks combined with overwhelming demand have led supply chain insiders to suggest that Apple may not catch up with demand for the iPhone X until sometime in the first half of 2018. But with shipping times improving just a week and a half after the iPhone X launch, it's possible that Apple could catch up to demand more quickly than was expected.
Such improvements bode well not only for Apple and sales of the iPhone X, but also for future products. In particular, the company is rumored to bring Face ID to the iPad Pro in 2018.
Apparent iPhone X production issues are said to be the fault of the forward facing TrueDepth camera, which powers the Face ID biometric authentication system replacing Touch ID. The camera is said to be composed of two key parts dubbed "Romeo" and "Juliet," and "Romeo" parts are more difficult to manufacture, leading to an imbalance in supply.
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Also be joining the upgrade program this year.
NOBODY, but NOBODY, outside of Apple, knows how many iPhone Xs Apple has contracted to have manufactured, or will manufacture, for this or any other quarter. The idiot Kuo sounds off with a production constraint meme, a meme you can set your annual calendar to, and the blogosphere can't let it go, even after Apple totally discredits the rumor mongers.
Apple locked in design, specifications and production contracts last November. In order to get a contract vendors have to be certified by Apple as to their ability to manufacture to spec, and in QUANTITY. This was done a year ago.
Further Apple guided December quarter revenue between $84 Billion and $87 Billion (YoY growth 10.52% MINIMUM). Apple's guidance implies iPhone YoY unit sales growth of ~7.8% (adjusted for increase in ASP) to a record 84 Million units MINIMUM.
Where, oh where, does production constraints come into play when iPhone X will only be available for two of three months this quarter?
DEMAND, and nothing else, is driving delivery delays, just as it has always done since 2007.
probably worked as planned
Sorry to hear that. What are the delivery times like if you order now?