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This is strange to me: We’re likely less than two weeks out from this device being announced alongside the new iPhones. How can “small-scale” production only be
by twoodfin 5y ago
This is strange to me: We’re likely less than two weeks out from this device being announced alongside the new iPhones. How can “small-scale” production only be beginning now?
I think the reporting is confusing issues with 2022’s Apple Watch & the upcoming 2021 edition.
- wmf 5y agoIf this report is true, Apple will delay the announcement. They're not going to pull an AirPower with a product as important as the Watch.
- krono 5y agoWhy not? They do it with their Macbook all the time
- wmf 5y agoWhen they announce that a Mac will be released in a month, that's because it's already in volume production and they know there are no manufacturing problems. If the manufacturing is still being worked on and they can't know when it will be ready then it isn't safe to announce the product.
- krono 5y ago> and they know there are no manufacturing problems There are always manufacturing problems, and new, even significant ones, are discovered all the time. They might delay the announcement, but at some point the cost of further delays will grow beyond their projections of what shipping a first batch of faulty products will cost them in repairs/replacements/legal fees.
- oblio 5y agohttps://www.statista.com/statistics/382260/segments-share-revenue-of-apple/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/382260/segments-share-re... Mac revenue is somewhat small and stagnant while wearables revenue is growing and it's probably their future.
- ErneX 5y agoThey can announce mid September and release in October. Maybe the rumor is surfacing now but the production issue happened weeks ago.
- NoPicklez 5y agoI wouldn't be so sure, the device is being announced in two weeks but it is unlikely that we will be able to buy it straight away. We might find that the release date for purchase is some time away. Edit: Actually the article refers to blood glucose monitoring, which points so it being the 2022 model. However, the article does say there is a complete resign, which is also rumoured for this year model. Who know.
- Hamuko 5y agoIf the Apple TV 4K is any indication, there's at least a month lag between announcement and shipments.
- jon-wood 5y agoEven with a month’s lag products would already be in mass production, it regularly takes over a month just to ship goods from China to the US & Europe. Lead time on a new production line can easily run from six months to over a year depending on complexity. If they’re still having problems with the production lines they’re not going to be shipping to customers in a little over a month, short of using air freight to get goods across, and that would make a substantial dent in profit margins at scale.
- madmoose 5y agoApple does fly a lot of their products out of China so it doesn't take a month.
- nicce 5y agoYup. Last year I bought Apple Watch and it left China in next day.
- djrogers 5y ago> short of using air freight to get goods across Most iPhones and Apple Watches I’ve ever purchased on launch day ship via air from China to a FedEx hub somewhere in CONUS, then on to me. Takes about 3 days…
- wholien 5y agomentioning the blood pressure sensors is probably a sign that this isn't the 2021 Apple Watch
- NoPicklez 5y agoThe article also says that the watch has a complete redesign, which as we know is rumoured to occur this year? So that adds more confusion.