“Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities, who has a strong history of accurately predicting Apple’s future product plans, said in a note on Monday that Apple is expected to ship 8.4 million ‘iPhone 5C’ units in the current September quarter,” Neil Hughes reports for AppleInsider. “But difficulties in building the top-of-the-line ‘iPhone 5S’ [due to “yield rate issues with fingerprint sensor module and casing”] will reportedly limit that device to just 5.2 million units for the quarter.
“Kuo expects Apple to be able to increase ‘iPhone 5S’ shipments by 438 percent in the holiday 2013 quarter, reaching 28 million units in the three-month span,” Hughes reports. “That would put the ‘iPhone 5S’ ahead of the ‘iPhone 5C’ in terms of shipments for the quarter, according to Kuo. He sees shipments of the new plastic iPhone growing 122 percent quarter over quarter to 18.7 million units in the December frame.”
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