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."

Comments

Market manipulation?

[Dupple]

Someone is getting rich out of this

Re:Market manipulation?

[RoccamOccam]

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.

Re:Market manipulation?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:so? apple is still selling less product

[ArcadeMan]

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.