DigiTimes is reporting that manufacturers supplying Apple with touch panels for their iPhones, have not been told to shift production to a new model, but instead continue manufacturing the current iPhone 4. This further backs up the claims we’ve been hearing, that Apple will not introduce a new iPhone at this year’s WWDC, as they have in all the years prior since the device’s launch.
Here’s a lengthy quote:
Apple has not yet released a production roadmap for iPhone 5 as shipment volumes of iPhone 4 have continued to mount and related suppliers are not yet ready to shift their production lines for new products, according to sources at Taiwan-based touch panel makers. … While acknowledging there should be a roadmap for each generation of products, the sources insisted that touch panel shipments for iPhone 4 have remained steady, and that they have not seen a timetable to stop current production in preparation for the next-generation of iPhone.
In fact, just last night we heard reports that Apple might be trying to shift their iPhone introductions to the fall alongside their traditional iPod refreshes.
Again, I think this makes sense. New Verizon iPhone 4 customers won’t feel like they’ve been cheated with a new release only months after they bought one at launch, WWDC is now freed up to talk about, you know, software, and the fall media event once again has new life in it.
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