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Pegatron, Apple’s main supplier for the iPhone 5c, has reported 22 percent year-on-year earnings growth, citing mobile products as the main source of the increase. KGI Securities analyst Angela Hsiang told the WSJ that Apple provides 40 percent of the company’s business.
Pegatron has long been a secondary iPhone supplier, but was last year given the lead in production of the iPhone 5c, which it manufactures along with the iPad Mini. The company did not provide any breakdown in earnings between the two products.
Although the earnings increase is a big rise, the company’s operating margin is testament to the tough deals Apple strikes with its suppliers: Pegatron’s operating margin increased from 1.6 percent to 1.9 percent.
Pegatron is expected to share production of the iPhone 6 with Apple’s lead supplier Foxconn.
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Even a crap selling iPhone probably sells much better than whatever other smartphones they are outsourced to produced.
Perhaps that means it’s not a crap selling phone.
Agreed. The success of the iPhone is contingent upon quality and workmanship. The iPhone has earned its place as a leader in smartphone technology. And this is evident by it outselling other brands in its category.
Exactly
“Apple’s high-end iPhone 5s has been so remarkably successful, in spite of the supposed cheapening trend in smartphone buyers’ tastes, that Apple’s critics have been forced to pounce upon the supposed ‘failure’ of the iPhone 5c instead; a phone that sells so ‘terribly’ that it also outsold the ostensibly successful Samsung Galaxy S4 on half of America’s top carriers, and pushed every other Android phone out of the top U.S. sales charts entirely, from the first month it went on sale.”
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Not the failure haters try to make it seem like. It was never meant to be as big as 5C. As I’ve said over and over.
Probably meant to say 5S?
No, it is about the 5C. Not that it’s a blockbuster, but just that it isn’t doing as badly as some would like to believe.