Market watchers along with sources in Apple’s supply chain are reporting that Cupertino might not meet its estimates of the first-run of iPhone sales in the third-quarter of 2012. The reason? Component shortages.Particularly, the in-cell touch panels reportedly employed by the next-generation handset are said to be coming in fewer numbers than anticipated.
Produced by Sharp, whose business is now owned in part by Foxconn, in-cell touch panels are said to be thinner and more reliable than traditional IPS (in-plane-switching) displays.