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Originally Posted by PatNY
"No more blind faith than anyone else who takes at face value a story that has been repeated by almost all major news outlets and independently verified."
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The fact that a story has been repeated doesn't mean anything other than: it is good gossip.
And the story hasn't been verified. You have anonymous sources telling Nikkei that Apple places orders for the whole quarter, and you have anonymous sources telling the analyst that Apple places orders for each month. The stories contradict each other.
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Originally Posted by PatNY
As has been mentioned various times, the story involves multiple suppliers. It's likely they have hard numbers from some of the suppliers but not from all. The information from one supplier as to the amount of cuts could be either tentative or unclear. Hence the range.
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Then there would have been a range instead of the 19 million number as well.
And back to why the rumors are negative. It is possible that Apple doesn't think that it can sell more than 11 million iPhone5s per month after the winter holidays: Apple is DOOMED!!!!!!!!
