01-14-2013, 06:47 AM | #1 |
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Apple Cuts iPhone Part Orders Due to Low Demand
Normally, I wouldn't add to the plethora of Apple threads, but this item seemed rather telling:
Apple Cuts Orders of iPhone Parts following Low Demand Source: WSJ Last edited by Prestidigitweeze; 01-14-2013 at 06:50 AM. |
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The modern WSJ at work. They probably sourced with a Digitimes report to boot. (Didn't we just hear that Apple was expanding iPhone sales in China?) |
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01-14-2013, 08:42 AM | #3 | |
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Well, to be fair, sources who are close to the iPhone front say they dispute these comments as invention (attributed to a couple of iPhone owners - nobody closer)... Now we have Gizmodo quoting WSJ... so who's next and going to cite multiple sources in the know... |
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57...n-weak-demand/ Who, interestingly enough, also report this: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57563792-37/apple-shares-slip-toward-$500-on-iphone-5-demand-worries/ Quote:
At $500-plus, even a 3% drop is going to be good money for rumormongers. Last edited by fjtorres; 01-14-2013 at 12:06 PM. |
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I was curious to see how MR members might feel about the post-Murdochian WSJ -- provided the subject was not politicized (and therefore too charged for these forums).
Additional reactions would be even more illuminating. Giz is often accused of being composed of Apple cheerleaders, so their repost of the WSJ item itself seemed a telling development. Last edited by Prestidigitweeze; 01-14-2013 at 02:23 PM. |
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I don't think Tim Cook & Co. are laughing very much over this. The info appears to be legit. The sources seem to be coming out of Japan, directly from Apple's LCD manufacturers -- Sharp, LG, and Japan Display:
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You know what they say, where there's smoke ...
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01-14-2013, 05:03 PM | #9 |
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01-14-2013, 08:36 PM | #10 |
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I was watching an analyst on CNBC telling us because they only sold 50 million iPhones in the 4th quarter investors are shorting the stock.
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01-15-2013, 01:20 AM | #11 |
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01-15-2013, 04:15 AM | #12 |
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01-15-2013, 04:18 AM | #13 |
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Could be a nasty case of stock manipulation.
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01-15-2013, 04:26 AM | #14 | |
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Last quarter they sold 26.9 million iPhones. The best quarter was 2012Q1 with 37 million. (The next figures released will be Apple's 2013Q1, their 2012Q4 ended in October.) |
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They passed 250 million total iPhones ever sold around 2012Q3, after five years of sales, you expected them to do the same sales in 1 quarter? |
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