Apple has had its share of shortages with the 3GS and the iPad recently, but it seems that they have ramped up production for the iPhone 4 long before it was launched. Steve Jobs announced at WWDC 2010 that this would be their fastest rollout ever and the iPhone 4 shall be in 88 countries by September. Well thats sure does justice to the iPhone demand. So what goes behind the scenes to support this kind of demand?
Well it turns out that a component supplier for the iPhone 4 (Asia Optical that provides VGA camera lenses) has revealed that they are shipping as many as 3 million units to Apple every month. While we are excited that this speed of production would bring the iPhone 4 to India faster than the 3GS came and perhaps this might also be the reason for so many accurate leaks before the iPhone 4. Apart from the US leak of a lost prototype, we saw a Vietnam leak and several components leaking (housing, display etc).
US customers can also cheer with RadioShack, Best Buy and Walmart all stocking the iPhone at launch (along with ATT and Apple Store), so its certain that Apple has enough of these ready to get on your hands. Apple has shipped a maximum of 8.75 million iPhones in a quarter and at this rate, they are aiming at 12 million units every quarter. Quite a possibility we say!
Btw: Anyone else feeling that a 64GB version might comeout by year end? Perhaps with the 64GB embedded NAND flash memory coming in supply.
3 million for Us or worldwide, in my country malaysia, iphone 3Gs still got hype and people now can afford it but for iPhone4 i don’t think so