Apple has over 400 apple stores around the world which employs more that 50,000 employees worldwide.Apple Stores drive so much traffic to shopping malls that Apple is able to negotiate cheaper rent. Apple Stores generate more than 1 million visitors per day worldwide.Apple Stores have been shown to increase sales in mall 10%, according to the Wall Street Journal.The Nanjing East store in Shanghai is Apple's busiest. It gets 25,000 visitors per day.
Showing posts with label iphones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iphones. Show all posts
January 9, 2017
January 27, 2016
for the first time in a decade apple's iphone sales hits speedbreaker
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Apple announced a sharp slowdown in sales growth for its iPhone |
The company sold 74.8m of its flagship devices in the final three months of 2015, compared to 74.46m iPhones it told during the same period in 2014.. which points to the fact that : iPhone sales has now plateaued
However the worrying point for apple, is that the company is dependent on the iPhone magic wand more than it should do as it created more volatility and risk for the company something that wall street will not like
- Apple's ipads meanwhile have been shrinking for more than 18 months. Apple sold 16.1million iPads in the last three months of 2015, down from 21.4m tablets in the same quarter last year.
- Mac sales too, declined with Apple selling 4% fewer ending up with 5.3 million sales (YoY)
- Apple Watch, grew sharply to $4.4bn, up from $2.6bn in the third quarter of 2015 (when the company first reported Watch sales).
- Other products in the category include Beats accessories, Apple Pay and Apple TV
October 15, 2015
the real reason why iphones and ipads cannot be manufactured in US
r those of you using apple products . specially iphone and ipad would have noticed the following t? "Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China.". So why exactly does ipad and iphone cannot be made in US, is it the cost of production, the costs of labor in US that makes it difficult to made iphones in US.. Why cant apple 's iPhones, iPads, and all the rest of Apple's magic gadgets be built in the States?
The real story of why this cant be done ... will be a revelation .. and its also a sad comment how America have been loosing its " manufacturing base" and we are no longer producing the kind of people " with the required skills "
The New York Times asked that question, and after an extremely well-researched report involving interviews with both former and current executives at Apple, the answer the Times found is both simple and chilling: iPhones aren't made in America because they just can't be, not because of manufacturing costs and other hyperbole . The infrastructure and labor force that apple needs to manufacture iphones and ipads doesn't exist at any levels in US , which is necessary to support Apple's operations -- in fact its not even close to China...
- The Chinese factory where most iPhones reach final assembly employs 230,000 workers. Compare this with US: how many cities in the US have a population higher than that, ( according to SIRI the answer was a mere 83 cities )-- and that's total population, not workforce. With an average labor force of around 65 percent of the population, only 50 US cities are large enough to provide that kind of labor pool... and even in the biggest US city of them all, New York, 230,000 people still amounts to almost three percent of the city's entire population.
- One of apple's biggest supplier Foxconn has over 60,000 people living and working at the factory. Many of the people at "Foxconn City" work six days a week, twelve hours a day.. In US you just cannot do that .Apple employs 43,000 people in the United States, less than a fifth the number of contractor employees assembling iPhones at one Chinese factory
- Even though the 200,000 assembly-line workers putting part A into slot B could potentially be classified as unskilled labor, the 8700 industrial engineers overseeing the process are highly skilled -- and according to the nytimes Times, finding that many qualified engineers in the States would take 9 months . Chinese manufacturers found them all in 15 days..In US the demand and supply gap between engineers who graduates every year is appalling .
So the reason of iphone being manufactured is not " a merely" manufaturing cost issue,, Instead, it's about who can build manufacture the greatest number of iPhones within the shortest period of time, all while remaining flexible and instantaneously adaptable to Apple's needs.
October 12, 2015
List of 10 iphone component suppliers which gets over 70% revenue from Apple
Apple's driving enormous profits for its suppliers. Apple outsources almost all its internal components and devices used for the manufacturing of its iphone from RAM,screens and power amplifiers.The below chart shows the list of top 10 Suppliers who gets its highest business from Apple.
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These are the top device suppliers which helps apple makes its iphones The latest supplier to come on board include Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the chip foundry that Apple is using to make processors that have long been provided by Samsung Electronics
With the notable exception of the A5 processor, most of the components used to make the iPhone are also manufactured overseas, For component suppliers Apple is a huge catch as they vie together in a fiercely competitive market to get business from Apple.With $171 billion in sales in its last fiscal year -- on par with the gross domestic product of Vietnam -Apple plays kingmaker by picking who provides semiconductors, graphics processors and other parts, helping to determine the fate of companies from California to China.
March 8, 2015
Apple's BlockBusters 3Ps : iPod vs iPhone vs iPad sales from 2007 to 2014
March 5, 2013
China set to Replace US as the Biggest Apple Market, continues to grow above 200%
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source : outsider trading |
Today in 2013 Apple is already the number 2 market in the world for Apple after US. But that is very soon going to change with China overtaking the US ( source: Techstorm ) )
Apple notched up 250% growth in 2010 and 350% in 2011. In 2012 the growth slowed to 83% but that is still almost twice the US or the global average.
China and the US have a roughly equal number of PCs but the mobile users in China exceed the US by a factor of three to one.
According to Horace Dideu of Asymco
The contrast is even more stark when one considers the time and effort each company has made in China. Microsoft has been investing and promoting itself in China for decades while Apple barely had any presence 3 years ago.
Apple’s China net sales in fiscal 2009 were only 769 million. In 2012 they were $22.8 billion. That is a figure greater than US sales three years earlier. Put another way, China sales grew in three years as much as they did in the US in 33.
According to Powerstream , Chinese brands spent merely a total of 500mn Yuan (about $81mn) on mobile advertising in 2012, 0.2%of the total ad spending in China, or 1.3% of online ad advertising. ( source : http://technode.com/2012/11/24/how-smallbig-is-chinese-mobile-advertising-market/)