“Samsung Electronics is to slash production at its OLED panel plant in response to customer Apple’s decision to reduce output of the iPhone X following weak demand,” Kenichi Yamada writes for Nikkei. “Samsung Display now plans to manufacture organic light-emitting diode panels for 20 million or fewer iPhones at the South Chungcheong site in the January-March quarter. The initial goal was to supply panels for 45 million to 50 million iPhones.”
“The new target will reduce production at the plant to around 60% of the original plan,” Yamada writes. “When it comes to the facility dedicated to making panels for Apple, the rate will fall to 50% or lower.”
Yamada writes, “Apple’s struggle with the iPhone X is affecting production of other parts as well, bringing down memory-chip prices.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Tripe.
Even if a particular data point were factual it would be impossible to accurately interpret the data point as to what it meant for our overall business… There is just an inordinate[ly] long list of things that would make any single data point not a great proxy for what’s going on. Apple CEO Tim Cook, January 23, 2013
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iPhone X was the best-selling smartphone in the world in the December quarter according to Canalys, and it has been our top selling phone every week since it launched. iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus rounded out the top three iPhones in the quarter. In fact, revenue for our newly launched iPhones was the highest of any lineup in our history, driving total Apple revenue above our guidance range… The iPhone X was the most popular and that’s particularly noteworthy given that we didn’t start shipping until early November, and we’re constrained for a while. The team did a great job of getting into supply demand balance there in December. But since the launch of iPhone X, it has been the most popular iPhone every week, every week sales. And that is even through today, actually through January… We feel fantastic, particularly as it pertains to iPhone X. — Apple CEO Tim Cook, February 1, 2018
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Don’t all iPhone sales slump within months of first release? You have the first adopters making the mad rush once products become available and following this phenomenon sales decrease then flatten out. Of course, Samsung is merely behaving in accordance to this and previous recorded histories. No need for any histrionics.
Even if the cuts are true why is this report from 2 weeks ago being rehashed again?
Two weeks ago this report came out and the stock was punished and then the stock went up based, so here the reason this old news is being retold Nikkei told their clients to short the stock 2 weeks ago before the report, and then they were surprised but the unexpected turn around in the stock, so now to protect their clients they are trying to manipulate it down again.
The real funny thing is this report came out on Sunday with expectation that it would hit the stock price on Monday, but someone forgot to check that Monday was a market holiday, this manipulation is so obvious yet nothing is done about it
“Yamada writes, “Apple’s struggle with the iPhone X is affecting production of other parts as well, bringing down memory-chip prices.””
Bullshit, pure and simple. Apple has long term contracts for memory chips and other iPhone components – some of that component volume is guaranteed with the rest obtainable as options to provide Apple with some flexibility while maintaining a production floor to provide some stability for the component vendors. I seriously doubt that a recent decision from Apple has already cascaded through into pricing on the larger market. Apple is big, no doubt. But does the electronics component world revolve around Apple – only in specific areas in which Apple pushes the state-of-the-art (e.g., integrated camera/lidar mapping sensors on the iPhone X). Even then, the component dominance of Apple tends to be short-lived as others jump onboard and begin using similar technologies in their products.
Once again the “nobody is buying iphone X” BULLSHIT narrative arises from the ashes of the Tim Cook CC during the last Quarter. MORONS again…!!!
Nikkei knows their BS can sink Apple stock so they keep doing it every few weeks. One would think investors wouldn’t keep falling for the same crap but I suppose a fair number of Apple investors are just gutless or don’t really care if the stock continues to roller-coaster every couple of weeks. Maybe they think it’s good for stock buybacks.
Yes, investors are in on it. They are dogs eating other dogs.
Apple could be getting their OLED displays from manufacturers other than Samsung.🤭