Bloomberg: iPhone 14 Launch Orders as Strong as iPhone 13 Launch

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12 AUGUST 2022 - An interesting bit of news from Bloomberg, highlighted by 9 to 5 Mac. According to the report, Apple has asked manufacturers to build 90-million iPhone 14s for the phone’s launch this year. That would match the 90-million iPhone 13s Apple’s believed to have requested for launch last year.

This seems to be seen as good news for a couple of reasons. For one - staying at the same level indicates that Apple is not expecting a slowdown, even #InThisEconomy. According to Bloomberg, Apple is “counting on an affluent clientele and dwindling competition to weather a global electronics downturn.” Additionally, the report says before iPhone 13, Apple used to launch with about 75-million units.

About the only thing that might make the alleged 90-million order disappointing is talk earlier this week of Apple ordering 95-million iPhone’s for launch. On Monday, a piece from Taiwan’s United Daily News indicated that the Cupertino-company has increased orders for the first round of iPhone 14s from 90-million units to 95-million.

It’s not that Bloomberg is contradicting UDN, necessarily. Whatever the case, indications that iPhone orders aren’t falling in #TheseTimesInWhichWeLive reads as better news that one might expect.