Reuters: last-minute iPhone 6 screen redesign puts production in a frenzy, might affect supply at launch

After issues with manufacturing of the super-thin new iPhone display packages, a deeper problem has been putting Apple's supply chain in a frenzy to meet deadlines, just a few weeks before the grand iPhone 6 unveiling, reports Reuters. It's not simply a matter of retooling and polishing the production process to accommodate Apple's stringent quality policies this time, supply chain sources say, but an actual problem with a component design itself. The issue has been going on for about a month, going into July, and had to do with the backlighting, clarified the insiders. Apparently, Apple wanted to have the thinnest iPhone ever, and skipped on a layer of the backlighting film to make that possible. The panel's brightness, however, was nowhere near Apple's standards then, so the company had to revert to using double-layered backlighting again, while suppliers were twiddling their thumbs, anticipating the final design.