Companies from Taiwan manufacturers Apple products, Foxconn, are having trouble assembling the iPhone 5 smart phone products. Moreover, market demand for the iPhone 5 is increasing.
"Not easy to assemble the iPhone 5. We were overwhelmed to meet market demand," Foxconn CEO Terry Gou said, as quoted by Reuters on Wednesday (07/11/2012).
Earlier, a Foxconn executive also said that of all the plants ever assembled, the iPhone 5 is most difficult to make. Most likely, this is one reason why the iPhone 5 is rare in the market and delivery is also slow.
Analyst Shaw Wu of Sterne Agee research institute said the problem could occur in manufacturing baseband combining 4G LTE wireless connection capability in the fabrication process chip 28 nanometer (nm).
Production can also be hampered in stages of strict quality control by the Apple, especially checking out the material of the iPhone 5. The material of aluminum and glass that surrounds the body of the iPhone 5 easily scratched. Some shoppers were surprised to see a scratch on their new iPhone 5, which is open from cardboard packaging, especially black ones.
Analyst Kevin Keller of the research institute IHS said, aluminum is used in the iPhone 5 is not covered by other protective material. "It's just bare aluminum. This is easily scratched. You can scratch it with a key or other object," said Keller.
If the quality control officer found no scratches on the iPhone 5, the unit is not passed. Foxconn Workers should be extra careful in assembling the iPhone 5. Meanwhile, Apple had to fulfill a promise to deliver the iPhone 5 to 69 other countries before 2012 ends.
Since its launch in 2007, the iPhone has become Apple's flagship product. Sales of the iPhone in 2011 and reached 53 percent of all sales of Apple products. The remaining revenue was contributed by the Apple iPad (20 percent), Mac (14 percent), iPod (5 percent), iTunes (4 percent), and other (3 percent).
0 comments:
Post a Comment