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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."
Or someone not using common sense. BGR points out that the best estimates of Q4 sales is 52M iPhones (during a holiday season). The original estimate of 65M for Q1 is being halved. First of all who put out the original estimate (certainly not Apple)? Second of all, whoever put the original estimates forgot that sales of consumer electronics most likely drop after the holidays. So lack of common sense.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
It's unlikely Apple completely blew the estimated sales for iPhone 5 in the March quarter by that much. The most likely explanation is that the rumor is just wrong. Next most likely is that the 5S is coming soon and gets a slightly tweeked screen. Maybe even just a slightly different part from the same supplier. Whoever leaked the info saw the partial cancellation, but isn't aware of the replacement order. And, remember, even if 5S isn't coming until the next quarter, Foxconn might have to start taking delivery of screens this quarter, in order to ramp up production and build launch inventory.
Usually the Wall Street Journal gets it accurate when it speculates on Apple, so unless they're trying to throw away their reputation and score a quick buck, probably not.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
I think part of this is a function of android getting better, and the user experience being a lot better than it used to be.
But - I think this says more about the iPhone 5 than anything else. The 5 didn't really bring much to make Apple fans feel like they had to upgrade. An extra row of icons? Nobody cares about that. LTE is nice, but given the pervasiveness of wifi and the fact that most people are dealing with data caps, it didn't drive sales.
After 5ish years, someone is finally pushing Apple in the mobile space. They'll have to begin innovating again.
Competition is a good thing.
You do, but really most of the Apple ecosystem does not want jailbreaks, and firmly supports Apple's active patching of JB-ed devices.
As a developer, jailbreaking means piracy. Installious may be gone, but there are plenty of other services that do the same thing. So, jailbroken devices take food out of our mouths. I have to thank Apple that the 4S and 5 have kept the leeches at bay for a very long time, and with the Dev Team's back broken, JBs will end up a moot point because if they do happen, the next Apple model will be out, with the next iOS version patching it.
As a user, iOS's security depends on the jail system. JB-ed devices have no security in place whatsoever (unlike rooted Android phones which at least still have separation via UIDs.)
No non-jailbroken device has ever have had malware in the wild, and this is where the proof is in the pudding. I can be assured that data stored on an iOS device will be protected, by both storage encryption, and by extreme protection even on the CPU itself. No other mass-market device can give this assurance outside of milspec stuff that only works in SIPRnet.