Apple's dizzying iPhone 5 production numbers revealed
PLUS: the rumour-mill ramps up over the official release date.
Apple is planning to make 22 million iPhone 5s during its fourth quarter, according to a well-regarded publication that covers the contract manufacturing industry.
DigiTimes reports Apple's main assembler, China-based Foxconn, is now producing 150,000 iPhone 5s a day in prepertion for the launch (pinned at anywhere between the first week of October and October 21 for the US, depending on which tech site you believe; release in other countries is expected in the two months after that if Apple follows its usual pattern).
Foxconn will continue to produce the iPhone 4 after the iPhone 5's launch, but at a lower rate.
Apple has declined to comment to NBR on the iPhone 5's release date.
In its most recently reported quarter, for the three months to June, Apple reported iPhone sales of 20.34 million - a record, and a 142% increase over the year-ago quarter.
NBR staff
Fri, 09 Sep 2011
Fri, 09 Sep 2011
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Apple's dizzying iPhone 5 production numbers revealed
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