Apple could be gearing up for a veritable apple-phone blitz in 2012. In fact, it says goodbye to 2011 with more iPhone in its catalog than ever, with up to three devices, which make up a high range -with the iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 at the helm- and a mid-range of recognized solvency -represented in the iPhone 3GS -. With the shadow of a possible fourth terminal looming on the horizon, the iPhone 5, the Cupertino people could have in mind a strategy for next year that seeks to materialize the pure war for the attrition of the competition.
So much so that in Foxconn's Chinese factories they have started the expansion works of their Zhengzhou unit, where Apple phones are currently being assembled. To be specific, the assembly line of this plant is the framework where up to 200,000 units of the iPhone are manufactured every day, as we know from Phone Arena.
However, once completed expansion works in Zhengzhou, Foxconn would be willing to send no less than 400,000 units of the iPhone every day, as long as sitúen resources of the plant to 95 percent of capacity. If it were possible to maintain that rhythm for a single month - something unlikely, on the other hand, although not impossible, according to certain practices carried out at Foxconn unfortunately - the production of the iPhone in 2012 could mean the exit of eight million terminals.
The expansion of the Zhengzhou plant will add up to 100,000 new employees to Foxconn's ranks, all assigned to work on the iPhone assembly line. The fact that the production capacities of Apple's phone could not be leading so much to the manufacture of a specific model as to supporting the survival of several lines of the device simultaneously, so that the launch of a new version - the iPhone 5 - did not work to the detriment of the models that currently populate the Apple catalog, and that could coexist with a future terminal.
