Apple won't be able to match iPhone X demand this year, analyst predicts
Pre-orders are open for the iPhone 8 and in some markets shipping delays are already to be expected. Well, if the plain iPhone 8 and 8 Plus are so sought after, it would come as no surprise if Apple ends up unable to meet demand for the iPhone X later this year, as Ming-Chi Kuo predicts.
A common source of intel on all things Apple, the analyst from KGI Securities expects that 40 million iPhone X units to be sold by the end of the year, but that would still leave some folks wanting a bezelless iPhone without one. That, however, would simply translate into sales next year, for a total of 90 million projected unit sales. The first half of 2018 is when Apple will catch up with demand, the analyst writes in a note to investors.
It's that round-cornered notched OLED display that's holding down production according to Kuo, and the front-facing 3D-scanning camera setup isn't helping either.
The iPhone X will go on pre-order on October 27 with sales starting on November 3.
Reader comments
- AnonD-702737
goodluck to chinese laborers/workers in assembling an iPhone to keep up with the demand.
- 23 Sep 2017
- yJp
- Anonymous
Darn. I hope I can get mine on the 3rd
- 19 Sep 2017
- Yde
- dd
Best thing about this phone is the new A11 chip but I bet the sheeps have any ideas about it.
- 19 Sep 2017
- YRF