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Analysts Cut iPhone X Shipment Forecasts, Citing Lukewarm Demand (bloomberg.com)
According to Bloomberg, analysts have lowered iPhone X shipment projections for the first quarter of next year, citing signs of lackluster demand at the end of the holiday shopping season. From the report: Sinolink Securities Co. analyst Zhang Bin said in a report Monday that handset shipments in the period may be as low as 35 million, or 10 million less than he previously estimated. "After the first wave of demand has been fulfilled, the market now worries that the high price of the iPhone X may weaken demand in the first quarter," Zhang wrote. JL Warren Capital LLC said shipments will drop to 25 million units in the first quarter of 2018 from 30 million units in the fourth quarter, citing reduced orders at some Apple suppliers. The drop reflects "weak demand because of the iPhone X's high price point and a lack of interesting innovations," the New York-based research firm said in note to clients Friday. "Bad news here is that highly publicized and promoted X did not boost the global demand for iPhone X," according to the note. Apple is said to have trimmed its first-quarter sales forecast to 30 million units from 50 million, Taiwanese newspaper Economic Daily News reported, citing unidentified supply chain officials. It also said Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.'s main iPhone X manufacturing hub in Zhengzhou, China, stopped recruiting workers. The company also known as Foxconn is the sole iPhone X assembler, and also makes the handsets in Shenzhen and Chengdu.
Buy your own spy equipment with FaceID and TouchID and always-on always-locating tech with your own money, not with ours.
Besides, why would I want a bigger phone with a camera?
Wake me when you issue the iPhone 9 SE, the iPhone 8 version intended for India and China, with a smaller form and none of the FaceID stuff I don't want.
And forget about that Watch stuff, if I want to wear jewelry, I'll buy it myself.
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I was told Face ID would change everything!
You can help this situation by stopping by your local Apple store and purchasing multiple Iphone Xs. Only you can help Apple make its forecast. They are only $1000+ each. Have a heart this Christmas and help them out. Think of the Apple employees and their families.
Demand after the last quarter in the year with the iPhone X being new and around Xmas will drop the first quarter of the new year? Unheard of!
Wow, you really understand how climate works.
And it could be argued that spending $1000 on a phone when you can get a perfectly serviceable one for a third of that is a form of gluttony.
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The ghost of Steve Jobs says they are holding their calculators wrong.
Table-ized A.I.
Insecurity is.
Zero proof? The reduced estimates are based on lower orders to Apple's suppliers. Without their parts Apple can't build phones so it's a reasonable way to gauge future demand.
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Surely this can't be the first time you've experienced lake effect snow. Also, try googling "weather" and "seasons".
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Woosh. Absent any detail on _which_ suppliers and _which_ parts are seeing lower orders (which is NOT public knowledge it is not possible to determine which iPhone model is impacted.
Democracy is a sheep and two wolves deciding what to have for lunch. Freedom is a well armed sheep contesting the issue
Cutting the cost would be admit defeat, or to have made a mistake. Apple does not admit defeat!! NEVER!
The iPhone X is a really good phone. However they sold it a nearly the same time as the iPhone 8. While the X had a big initial push for all those who wanted the premium phone. After the initial rush and Christmas season is over. We get the people who wants to upgrade their old phones the version 6 and under. And may figure they want the with the 8 or even go with the cheaper 7.
What should had been the iPhone 8 should had been sold next year this year should had been the 7s. So this is an off year.
All in all it wasn’t anything an engineer like Woz is qualified to handle. The phone itself is fine on par with the premium phones of its time. This decline in sales is due to over expectations in the current market where you have other premium phones on the market. While the X is good it isn’t light years ahead.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Shouldn't reply but...
AGW means a more unstable climate hence the "climate change". Global warming means that that temperatures are globally increasing _but_ it doesn't mean that local temperatures can't decrease. Look for instance on the Scandinavian climate - the temperatures there will decrease drastically if the Gulf stream wasn't there pumping heat. The temperatures of Russia wouldn't be similarly affected by a decrease/reversal of the stream due to continental effects, the same applies to mainland Europe.
Unstable climate can lead to rapid changes in weather patterns and that also means uncommon events causing local cooling will be more common, the same applies to local heating. But that is still uncommon exceptions to the main pattern - that of a global temperature increase.
People talking about short-term local temperatures as related directly to AGW don't know what they are talking about. Yes that includes you. The summer isn't warmer because of AGW but because it was warmer caused by extremely complex systems causing what we call weather. But see the previous chunk of text ^.
If you'd actually read up on the research you'd know that ice cores doesn't tell this as anything normal. The change is very rapid compared to normal climate change. But it's easier being an anonymous idiot.
Also the iPhones are going to have significantly more profit per volume and weight in shipping than the BMW. You could probably fit over 1000 iPhones in the volume of space it would take to ship a single car overseas and the shipment would probably still weigh less. Assuming apple taking $500 in profit per device and you potentially have $500,000 profit in the same place of a car that maybe brings in midish double digits thousands in profit.
The iPhone X and Galaxy Note 8 are $50 difference in price. Yet no one on Slashdot excoriates Samsung for the profit margin on their phones.
Why?
So I guess the need for a $1000 phone is not as high as apple expected. Guess the disciples of Job's are growing up a bit? Or maybe their mommy's and daddy's are not willing to support their habit any longer.
Funny, Samsung must've made the exact-same calculation for the GN8. It is only $50 less than the iPhone X (which, at around $1k, is insignificant), and Samsung doesn't have to buy its display (probably the most expensive single component), and its Flash (another pricey component) from anyone else, like Apple does.
There's a far more alarming trend than global warming but it's actually correlated to simply talking about global warming. What will kill us is not temperature rise but rather the sharp increase in ignorance per comment.