What Went Wrong With The iPhone 5?
October 17, 2011
By now, most of you know the iPhone 4S isn’t a dramatic departure from the iPhone 4. In fact, other than its amazing improvements inside and the introduction of the Siri voice recognition technology, the current iPhone looks exactly likes its predecessor. Still, Apple was planning on announcing a radically different handset this year, the so-called iPhone 5. So what happened? Our friends at 9 To 5 Mac think they have the answer.
Until February, Apple planned on introducing an iPhone 4S at this year’s WWDC in June, followed by an iPhone 5 later in the year. Unfortunately, those plans changed because Siri wasn’t ready and neither was iOS 5. Plus, Apple’s supplier, Foxconn was having problems actually creating the thinner iPhone 5.
According to the report:
But something happened around February of this year that threw everything off. Apple was still integrating the Siri team and code into iOS and it was going much slower than planned. In February, Apple knew they weren’t going to be able to get an iOS 5 Beta to developers in April and they sure weren’t going to have a stable version by WWDC. They would be lucky to get a final version of Siri into customers’ hands by the holiday shopping season (Siri is currently in Beta in three languages).The good news is that since Apple had planned on releasing the iPhone 4S in June and not this month as it turned out, supplies of the iDevice should be good through the end of the year. This is especially nice for those buyers who plan on upgrading or buying a new iPhone 4S for the holidays for themselves or for others as gifts. So what happened to the iPhone 5? It’s still there and should be released next summer, according to a Foxconn source.