Apple (AAPL) Could See Drop in MacBook Shipments in FY13
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Despite Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) being great at innovation and design, some consumer electronic segments have no correlation and can't be easily manipulated.
Digitimes alludes that laptops might be one of those segments. The site said that Apple MacBook shipments could slip in 2013, according to upstream supply chain sources. Shipments in calendar Q3 were said to be up 10 percent to 20 percent sequentially and have been on the uptick since June. Growth is expected to continue at least through the end of October.
However, Apple halted production and order placement in Q1 this year, which will have an impact on final numbers. Having shipped 13.03 million MacBooks last year and 5.3 million through the first-half of 2013, the company will need to order 7.73 million more units in the second-half of 2013 not to see a drop.
With new iPad and iPad mini tablets debuting soon (its expected that those will appear later this month), Apple could find itself with one weak spot through the end of the year.
Shares of Apple are up 1.5 percent.
Digitimes alludes that laptops might be one of those segments. The site said that Apple MacBook shipments could slip in 2013, according to upstream supply chain sources. Shipments in calendar Q3 were said to be up 10 percent to 20 percent sequentially and have been on the uptick since June. Growth is expected to continue at least through the end of October.
However, Apple halted production and order placement in Q1 this year, which will have an impact on final numbers. Having shipped 13.03 million MacBooks last year and 5.3 million through the first-half of 2013, the company will need to order 7.73 million more units in the second-half of 2013 not to see a drop.
With new iPad and iPad mini tablets debuting soon (its expected that those will appear later this month), Apple could find itself with one weak spot through the end of the year.
Shares of Apple are up 1.5 percent.
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