Apple may only ship half the number of iPhone X devices it originally planned to this year
The holy grail for many Apple fans, the iPhone X, has been plagued by production issues that already look to substantially limit supplies of the coveted device. Now, a new report from the Nikkei Asian Review clarifies just how much they’ll be limited: Apple will apparently ship only 20 million units this year, half of how much it had planned. The report suggests the reduction in units comes from technical issues surrounding components that are used in the new face authentication feature.
According to Nikkei, at the beginning of mass production for the iPhone X, there were defects that occurred in the OLED panels during the bonding process. Though that was fixed in July, there continued to be problems in assembling the module responsible...