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The Strange Math of Apple's Alleged Massive iPhone 5 Order Cuts
zacharye writes "The Sunday evening Wall Street Journal article claiming that Apple had cut its iPhone 5 display orders drastically for the March quarter made quite a splash. The way WSJ wrote its piece seemed to support the original Nikkei claim about Apple cutting its iPhone 5 display orders in half from the originally planned order of 65 million units. This would be a massive adjustment. But Apple uses the same new display type for both iPhone 5 and the latest iPod touch. Neither WSJ nor Nikkei addressed this, however — both seemed to be referring to just iPhone 5 displays. The math just doesn't add up."
Most people thought Apple patented rounded rectangles. But in reality they have patented all roundings including rounded numbers. So that explains the difference.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
BGR points out that the best estimates of Q4 sales is 52M iPhones
No wonder they dropped "think different" from their marketing.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Except that is an article from 2010 about possible insider trading, not about the alleged market manipulation by driving down the stock price through rumors and FUD like seemed to start happening in 2012.
Yes, last time they used a spoon. This time they're using a fork. However you're what's for dinner so does it really matter?
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You've actually bought into the old canard that "Microsoft Saved Apple"? The 'generous investment' was part of a lawsuit settlement, and amounted to less than 1% of what Apple had in the bank at the time. That's like me claiming I saved you from losing your house when I gave you $100, even though you had 12 months worth of mortgage payments in your bank account at the time.