14 DAY TRIAL // A report out of China says that Apple and its manufacturers are struggling to achieve good component yield rates for two upcoming key products, including the Apple Watch and the iPhone 6S.
The story with the Apple Watch is basically the same thing we hear every year: the assemblers are having a hard time achieving good yield rates, but they’re confident in their progress as the manufacturing process gets streamlined. Right, that’s one thing we can chalk off the blackboard.
A more interesting thing we found in this UDN report is that Apple seems determined to introduce the iPhone 6S ahead of schedule. Well, at least ahead of its self-imposed annual schedule, which sees one new iPhone model introduced every other fall. By these measurements, everyone expected the 6S to drop in September 2015. However, according to new reports from the Far East – and this is the second one that says this –, Apple wants to make our acquaintance with this model a bit sooner this time around.
Spring 2015 is the touted launch date, and one of the reasons the company wants to introduce this device ahead of its time is to spur Apple Watch sales. The reasoning is that a new iPhone launch will attract attention to the wearable gadget as well. We’re not sure how that works, but that’s what we’ve heard.
Now, this second report says pretty much the same thing – that Apple wanted to deploy the 6S in spring – but that it can’t because the A9 processors required to power the device are also off schedule.
