“Turns out the iPhone X isn’t too pricey after all,” Shara Tibken writes for CNET. “That’s one major takeaway from Apple’s earnings report Tuesday.”
“iPhone unit sales, while not soaring, held their own. They rose 2.9 percent year over year to 52.2 million phones. That led Apple to project revenue for its fiscal third quarter, which ends in June, that’s largely in line with Wall Street’s expectations,” Tibken writes. “And that iPhone X — which starts at $999, or $300 more than the iPhone 8 and $200 more than the iPhone 8 Plus — was the top-selling Apple device every week of the quarter, according to CEO Tim Cook. The iPhone X is the most expensive phone Apple has ever made.”
“In the weeks leading up to Apple’s results, analyst after analyst cut earnings estimates and warned the iPhone boom times could be over. They based their fears on results from Apple’s component suppliers, including Samsung, almost universally warned about weakness in the mobile market,” Tibken writes. “They were wrong… ‘Since we split the line with the launch of iPhone 6 and 6 Plus back in 2014, this is the first cycle that we’ve ever had where the top of the line iPhone model has also been the most popular,’ Cook noted, firing back at Wall Street worries the iPhone X is too expensive to sell in high numbers.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Obviously, Apple priced iPhone X too low. As owners will tell you, iPhone X is certainly an amazing value.
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Wall Street got exactly what it intended. Disseminate fake news to drop stock 10%+ percent > scare off retail investors > institutions buy low. Mission achieved.
Mission achieved Katy H.
Falsifiers, rumor mongers = Huberty, Saccanoghi, Campling, Ming Chau, Samsung, to name a few. CYA suppliers blame apple for poor management
Pure manipulation. Who’s going to jail for it?
Jail! Are you kidding? Lies and deception are totally praised on Wall Street as long as it makes money for big investors.
Bloomberg misinterpreted the Samsung earnings call that OLED panel orders were weak, thinking that Apple was the company ordering panels, when we know Samsung itself, is the biggest customer for OLED panels. That’s because Samsung operates its units as their own income centers.
Every single quarter they will deliberately get iPhone sales wrong for their own personal benefit. Of course, they’ll continue to use supply chain rumors to prove their point despite the fact that those rumors are practically useless.
Instead of being ignored, those rumors are spread all over the internet for a couple of weeks before Apple earnings. I suppose it’s OK as long as Apple continues to buy back shares while the share price drops. Fake news is relegated to being a minor annoyance for loyal Apple shareholders.
“They were wrong…”
When are we going to correctly say, “They lied…”?