One of the most respected
Apple analysts called the Mini «highly likely» last week; another analyst got so specific as to predict a launch month (October) a price ($ 299) and an exact screen size (7.85 inches).
Not exact matches
Following
Apple's previous earnings report in February, Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri gave rare additional guidance, telling
analysts on a conference
call that iPhone revenue would grow by at least 10 % year - over-year in the current quarter.
The iPhone X has been
Apple's top selling device every week since it came out last fall and was the best selling phone model in China, Cook noted multiple times on the
call, as he sought to combat the negative narrative some
analysts were pushing.
Apple CEO Tim Cook defended the company's iPhone sales on a
call with
analysts on Thursday, noting that even though the number of devices sold declined, price hikes helped iPhone sales revenue increase 13 % to a record $ 61.6 billion.
Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook and other
Apple executives have a «major prove - me» period ahead, beginning with a new sales forecast and a conference
call with
analysts on Tuesday, GBH Insights
analyst Daniel Ives said.
Apple is rumored to be unveiling two models similar to last year's devices, which
analysts are
calling the iPhone 7S and 7S plus.
Apple Watch accounted for «well over» 100 percent of the sequential growth of «other products» and more than offset decline in iPods and accessories, Luca Maestri,
Apple's chief financial officer, said during a
call with
analysts.
«We are not giving an end date to the program this time because the amount is very, very large,»
Apple Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri told
analysts on a conference
call.
During the earnings
call, one
analyst asked what
Apple would do to defend its market share.
Following
Apple's previous earnings report in February, Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri gave rare additional guidance, telling
analysts on a conference
call that iPhone revenue would grow by at least 10 per cent year - over-year in the current quarter.
Apple has a «major prove - me» period ahead, beginning with a new sales forecast and a conference
call with
analysts on Tuesday
In a conference
call with top
Apple executives, including Timothy D. Cook, the chief operating officer, who will be running the company during Mr. Jobs's absence,
analysts did not ask a single question about Mr. Jobs's health.
TI shares took a 6 % haircut last week when
analyst firm Deutsche Bank
called the company out as a supplier with exposure to an expected downturn in
Apple's smartphone sales.
The preoccupation with tech can be seen by the rising number of mentions of Amazon,
Apple, Google, and Facebook during bank execs» earnings
calls with
analysts.
During Intel's third - quarter earnings conference
call on Tuesday, an
analyst questioned Intel about the advantages of going to a 14 - nanometer manufacturing process, compared with
Apple's 28 - nanometer A7 chip.
Apple's late founder, Steve Jobs, made a rare appearance at an October 2010 conference
call with
analysts — his last — to deride the concept.
BGC Financial
analyst Colin Gillis
called the results «definitely solid» but said there's nothing that alleviates his concern that RIM will lose market share to
Apple's iPhone and phones running Google Inc.'s Android software in 2011.
Despite the fact that RIM is under such pressure from
Apple and Android, the company offered up nice earnings predictions this week when it talked to
analysts on a conference
call.
Near the end of the earnings
call, one
analyst asked Jobs about
Apple's competitors - specifically, how those companies would attempt to compete with the iPad in the consumer tablet market.
Battery life and the camera have been enormously exaggerated, much like the
Apple shareholders («
analysts») so -
called «downfall» of RIM.
In a
call with
analysts,
Apple's VP of finance Luca Maestri said the company viewed the drop in sales as closer to a 3 percent decline due to year - over-year channel inventory changes.
Apple today at the Steve Jobs Theater introduced the iPhone X, and said the high - end smartphone will be available in Space Gray and Silver, despite multiple rumors recently about a so -
called «Blush Gold» colorway.For perspective, the less expensive iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus will be available in an all - new gold finish, and beyond the plastic iPhone 5c, every model since the iPhone 5s has been available in at least one shade of gold.Yesterday, well - connected
Apple analyst Ming - Chi Kuo said
Apple may be encountering some production issues with the gold iPhone X, which could explain why Space Gray and Silver will be the only colors at launch.
According to Barclays Research
analysts Blayne Curtis, Christopher Hemmelgarn, Thomas O'Malley and Jerry Zhang,
Apple's next - generation iPhone, which is expected to be
called the iPhone 8, could ship with a larger screen and a curved, bezel-less design.
According to a piece by industry
analyst Ben Arnold for the NPD Group Blog, the early demand for
Apple's flagship smart speaker —
called HomePod — signifies that
Apple is serious about getting its foot in the door of the audio industry.
With the iPad slowing in sales,
analysts expect
Apple fans may favor the 5.5 - inch iPhone, as a large iPhone would in essence be an iPad that can make phone
calls.
Apart from what they
called as seemingly outdated hardware features,
analysts were also not happy with the delayed release for the iPhone X. Kiwoom Securities
analyst Seo Sang - young explained why the Nov. 3 shipment date of the flagship iPhone is a setback, saying, «The fact that the iPhone X will go on sale in November is a burden since loyal
Apple customers may choose to wait until the premium model is out, instead [of] choosing the other two iPhone 8 variants.»
The rumored
Apple Watch with LTE may not work for phone
calls, according to new research from a reliable
Apple analyst.
The
analyst also
called the rumored China Mobile iPhone launch and release of
Apple's HDTV «moving targets,» and he expects at least one of these major catalysts to become a reality in 2013.
The
analysts called 30
Apple Stores as a sample, and the maximum wait surveyed also fell substantially, from six weeks to four - and - a-half.
While we'll know what type of wild new features the iPhone 7 will incorporate in just about three months, a new report from reputed
analyst Ming - Chi Kuo provides us with some interesting insight as to what
Apple has planned for 2017 when it releases what will presumably be
called the iPhone 7s.
In that area, which KGI Securities
analyst Ming - Chi Kuo is
calling a «notch,»
Apple will place the iPhone's earpiece and front - facing camera.
If
Apple would have had the same upgrade rate with the iPhone 6s as it did with the iPhone 6, CEO Tim Cook told Wall Street
analysts during a conference
call today (April 26), «it would be time for a huge party.»
Analysts are
calling Google's announcement on Monday that it plans to buy Motorola Mobility a «game - changer» for its Android smartphone market, and a move that puts it in steeper competition against rival
Apple.