John Paczkowski

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iPhone 5 Supply Chain on High Alert as October Launch Looms

Apple’s manufacturing partners are ramping up production of the company’s forthcoming iPhone 5 in preparation for its October launch.

Supply chain sources tell Taiwanese trade mag DigiTimes that Foxconn Electronics is pumping out 150,000 next-generation iPhones per day, with a goal of shipping up to six million in September alone. With volume like that, fourth-quarter iPhone shipments could rise as high as 22 million.

Which is just about the number some analysts expect Apple to sell during the period. BTIG analyst Walter Piecyk, for example, predicts Apple will sell 21.5 million iPhones in Q4, though he argues it could sell far more than that if the company adds Sprint as a third carrier in the United States, and the debut of a brand-new iPhone at Verizon causes a big spike in sales.

“Since the iPhone 4 has been launched we estimate that AT&T and Verizon have represented 30 percent of Apple’s unit volume,” Piecyk says. “If the U.S. continues to represent 30 percent of Apple’s iPhone sales, it would imply a global iPhone demand for as many as 30 million iPhones in calendar Q4.”

Question is, can Apple deliver that many phones?

Twitter’s Tanking

December 30, 2013 at 6:49 am PT

2013 Was a Good Year for Chromebooks

December 29, 2013 at 2:12 pm PT

BlackBerry Pulls Latest Twitter for BB10 Update

December 29, 2013 at 5:58 am PT

Apple CEO Tim Cook Made $4.25 Million This Year

December 28, 2013 at 12:05 pm PT

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I think the NSA has a job to do and we need the NSA. But as (physicist) Robert Oppenheimer said, “When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and argue about what to do about it only after you’ve had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.”

— Phil Zimmerman, PGP inventor and Silent Circle co-founder, in an interview with Om Malik