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The Strange Math of Apple's Alleged Massive iPhone 5 Order Cuts

Posted by samzenpus on from the looking-at-the-numbers dept.

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."

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  1. Market manipulation? by Dupple · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Someone is getting rich out of this

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    1. Re:Market manipulation? by RoccamOccam · · Score: 5, Insightful

      There also hasn't been a successful jailbreak of iOS 6 on any device newer than 2010.

      Personally, I don't find that to be a selling point.

  2. Re:so? apple is still selling less product by ArcadeMan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    iPhones are so cheap? Are you insane?

    iPhone 5 is what, around $200 with a 2-years contract in the USA? But these monthly fees are likely to be around $50 or more, so $200+(24x$50)=$1400 at the least.
    iPod touch 5th generation is $300. That's less than a quarter of the cost. There's free wi-fi everywhere in NYC so iPod touch + VoIP = free calls.

    And if people are too stupid to include their monthly fees in the cost of their iPhone, too bad. You can't fix stupid.

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