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Apple silently tweaking iPhone 5 body?
- pedalpete 14y agothe one on the left is much nicer, but seeing as the device has been out for such a short period of time, can we tell which device was actually manufactured first? Or is this a case of different suppliers having slightly different parts? which seems unlikely for a new Apple product, but the one with the gap between the aluminium and glass seems all kinds of wrong anyway.
- tmslnz 14y agoNot sure. But I am getting curious about why. It's a hell of a tooling tolerance or it's a Jony Ive last-minute caprice? Considering the overall packaging accuracy I'd be inclined to file it as the latter.
- zaroth 14y agoApple explained this already. They have high resolution / high speed cameras analyzing each phone as it goes down the assembly line and automatically selecting the 'best' bezel out of something like 64 possible bins.
- tmslnz 14y agoIf you are talking about this: http://www.apple.com/iphone/#video http://www.apple.com/iphone/#video (05'40") then I understand they are picking the best plastic inlays to fit one particular chassis (as the video also shows). But that is unrelated to the outer edge CNC milling. What I believe has happened there is that the CNC tool adjusts its path to compensate for mounting misalignments by using a feeler. If the feeler is worn out or there's any other issue then the tool may re-adjust wrongly. I'm speculating, but I'm starting to believe it's not a design change; just a little f-up.