Apple tells suppliers to produce 10% fewer new iPhones

Re:Apple tells suppliers to produce 10% fewer new iPhones by pjmlp on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @06:08AM (#18863860)

Which pretty much invalidates the "Apple has announced that their products are selling fine outside of China." statement.

Besides it is quite exactly to see that outside first tier countries, iPhones never sold well, no matter what.

The numbers are easy to come by.

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Re:Apple tells suppliers to produce 10% fewer new iPhones by scarface74 on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @06:49AM (#18864028)

And that’s where the money is. Apple isn’t trying to sell $40 phones with no profit margin.

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Re:Apple tells suppliers to produce 10% fewer new iPhones by pjmlp on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @09:04AM (#18864720)

Until all those customers already have their models and aren't thinking in upgrading any longer, which is exactly what is happening.

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Re:Apple tells suppliers to produce 10% fewer new iPhones by scarface74 on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @09:16AM (#18864805)

And that’s why Apple is focusing on service revenue and ancillary devices like the Watch, AirPods, etc.

What tech company has a better,more profitable business model than Apple? Even long term, the only two other tech companies I would bet on are Microsoft because of Azure and Office (definitely not Windows) and Amazon because of AWS and to a lesser extent the stickiness of Amazon Prime.

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