“Apple is ramping up production of the iPhone 7 by ten percent, amid a recent spat of Samsung smartphone recalls,” Scott Gamm reports for TheStreet. “This is according to a report from Digitimes, which says Apple is ordering more parts from suppliers for the device, which is expected to be unveiled on Wednesday at an event in California.”
“Apple reportedly has revised upward orders by 10% for parts and components needed for production of the new iPhone devices scheduled to be released on September 7, according to sources from the iPhone supply chain in Taiwan,” Siu Han and Steve Shen report for DigiTimes.
“The hike in order volumes indicates that Apple still remains positive about replacement demand for new iPhones from existing iPhone users, said the sources, adding that Apple originally predicted that shipments of the new iPhone devices in the second half of 2016 will reach only 60% of iPhone shipments recorded in the year earlier period,” Han and Shen report. “Shipments of iPhone 6s reached 30 million units a month on average in the second half of 2015, the sources noted.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Again, Calendar fourth quarter will set an all-new quarterly iPhone unit sales record. — MacDailyNews, August 8, 2016
And iPhone sales will return to YOY unit sales growth in Apple’s fiscal 2017.
SEE ALSO:
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Beleaguered Samsung blows it in rush to beat Apple iPhone 7 to market – September 6, 2016
Apple stock up, may benefit from beleaguered Samsung’s exploding Galaxy devices – September 2, 2016
Beleaguered Samsung to recall 2.5 million Galaxy Note 7 units over exploding batteries – September 2, 2016
Samsung may be forced to recall Galaxy Note 7 over exploding batteries – September 1, 2016
Samsung halts Galaxy Note 7 shipments due to battery explosions – August 31, 2016
Ben Bajarin: ‘Samsung will be out of the smartphone business within five years’ – November 2, 2015
Apple’s iPhone can soon reap 100 percent of world’s smartphone profits – November 17, 2015
Apple’s iPhone owns 94% of smartphone industry’s profits – November 16, 2015
Poor man’s iPhone: Android on the decline – February 26, 2015
Study: iPhone users are smarter and richer than those who settle for Android phones – January 22, 2015
Why Android users can’t have the nicest things – January 5, 2015
iPhone users earn significantly more than those who settle for Android phones – October 8, 2014
Yet more proof that Android is for poor people – June 27, 2014
More proof that Android is for poor people – May 13, 2014
Android users poorer, shorter, unhealthier, less educated, far less charitable than Apple iPhone users – November 13, 2013
IDC data shows two thirds of Android’s 81% smartphone share are cheap junk phones – November 13, 2013
CIRP: Apple iPhone users are younger, richer, and better educated than those who settle for Samsung knockoff phones – August 19, 2013
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
What, you mean the iPhone will be the best iPhone ever? Man, what insight. I wouldn’t have thought that.
Still loving Scamsham’s battery exploding shot in the foot heard ’round the world. Can you think of any other company so deserving of the misfortune of an ill-timed & self-defeating screw-up? Funny we haven’t heard yet of corporate heads rolling. So many execs there have already swallowed their souls in Seoul.
Hopefully not the batteries though!