This year, Apple has maintained silence on what sales immediately following the launch of the new iPhone 7 and iPhone Plus 7 refers. According to the company, the imbalance between the number of available units and the volume of demand, would help provide some data that does not correspond with reality. This situation, usual all them years, not has been inconvenient in times past to announce to bombo and cymbal records of sales. The deduction is evident: the attitude of Apple makes us suspect that sales of the iPhone 7 will not achieve, nor much less exceed, to records marked by 6s and 6s Plus iPhone.
And despite this, seems be that them sales could be overcoming them expectations initial of Apple, at least is what also is deduces of increase of orders of components for the iPhone 7 that the company already would have effected of face to feed our fever consumerist of it time Christmas that already looms by the corner.
Increase the expectations for the iPhone 7
According to has published DigiTimes, that lately seems to know it all, Apple has increased their orders of parts and components for the series iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus: in concrete, them orders for what remains of year is would have increased between a 20 and a 30 percent above them expectations prior to the launch. Cupertino must not believe it will, as a server, which also sees these figures with some skepticism.
Citing sources from the company with headquarters in Taiwan General Interface Solution (GIS), a subsidiary of the giant Foxconn dedicated to the production of touch panels, Apple has increased its orders for the last natural quarter of 2016, which means that this provider will also grow their income significantly above expectations. And with this, already have to two companies very happy.
The initial demand for the new flagship of the Cupertino has been raised, especially for iPhone model 7 Plus, with 128 GB capacity, gloss black, and a dual camera which, without the minor doubt, is its maximum appeal. So much has been the demand, or so little has been the offer, that them times of shipping reaches already them several weeks, surpassing even a month for some regions where them new terminals already is found to the sale. And here I will make a subsection: honestly, I always thought that the initial shortage of iPhone is a mere marketing strategy that feeds the desire for users.
The “hand grenade mode” could be the key to this unexpected twist
For some analysts, one of the keys to this unexpected sales increase would be in the disaster by Samsung and its Galaxy Note 7, a device that arrived in a dozen countries affected by a problem of series in its battery, which literally made him explode and be wrapped in flames into a jumble of materials and components than rather looked like a beetle toy baseball player. Many of the users affected by the Note 7, would have returned their phones and opted to switch to the new 7 Apple iPhone.
In accordance with a survey online made by SurveyMonkey, the 26% of them “repentant” buyers of the Galaxy Note 7 planned to recover its money to invest it in an iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus. Meanwhile, another 35% preferred not to speak about the device that it would eventually acquire.
Completing this survey, the 21 percent said that was going to change by a model different from Samsung, while only the 18 percent said that planned to get a Galaxy Note 7 of replacement, which continue being scarce.
Making the against to this survey, Samsung says that 90% of the owners of an affected Galaxy Note 7 had decided to get a direct replacement, once fixed devices are “widely available”. Until the moment, more than the 60% of the devices defective have been replaced in United States, according to the South Korean.
Call me skeptical, that it am, but those figures not is them believes or it own Samsung, although tpco believe that the rate of switchers to the iPhone 7 go to be significant. Probably, in the term half find them results definitive.
Finally, expected 7 iPhone shipments to reach 80 to 84 million units until the end of the year, compared with the 85-90 million devices iPhone sent 6s in same period in 2015. If this were so, of course, the fall will not have been the predicted.
