“News” surfaced recently that Foxconn is halting production of the iPhone 5C and ramping up production of the 5s at it’s Zhengzhou factory.
Naturally, the blogosphere is abuzz with ‘5c: FAILURE’. Even when those bloggers have no facts (other than “industry insiders”), that doesn’t stop them from inventing wild speculation (speculation that, in turn, helps to manipulate the stock price).
Has anyone thought that perhaps Apple can produce the 5c model at more than twice the rate as the 5s? (which is entirely possible given that it’s internals are the same as the iPhone 5).
And now that they have a surplus, they’re shifting production to the 5s to handle unprecedented demand? Or maybe that their plan all along was to produce 5c and 5s for 3 months, then shift production to the 5s if necessary?
The point I’m making here is that even though no one has any concrete facts, that doesn’t stop news from being invented. STOP INVENTING STORIES, PEOPLE.
Remember Tim Cook’s statement about not looking at “a single data point in the supply chain”? That was a nice way of saying “you don’t know WTF you’re talking about”.