The iPhone 15 household is anticipated to reach this fall with a value hike and slimmer bezels. Curiously, demand for the upcoming collection is true now judged to be decrease than it was for the iPhone 14 line when it got here out final yr.
That is in accordance with famously supply-chain related analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. In his newest report, he outright states it: “demand for the iPhone 15 is decrease than that of iPhone 14”.
That is, in fact, only a projection in the mean time. Issues may change. In response to Kuo, “except the demand for the iPhone 15 is healthier than market expectations after launch, a lot of the suppliers will face progress strain” within the second half of the yr.
It isn’t simply iPhones, nonetheless. “Cargo forecasts for Apple’s {hardware} merchandise in 2H23 are virtually universally weaker” in comparison with final yr (“2H23” is the second half of 2023 in case you had been questioning).
One factor which may change the prediction tide is Apple clearly indicating “that it is optimistic about market demand in 2H23 or 2024”. To date that hasn’t occurred, but it surely nonetheless would possibly.
