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Apple Dismisses Reports on Supplier Order Cuts as Meaningless

Apple Dismisses Reports on Supplier Order Cuts as Meaningless

Posted January 24, 2013 at 12:24am by iClarified
Apple CEO Tim Cook directly addressed recent rumors about supplier order cuts, dismissing them as meaningless during the company's earnings call today.

I know there's been a bunch of rumors about order cuts and so forth. So, let me just take a moment to make a comment on this. I don't want to comment on any particular rumor because then I would spend my life doing that. I would suggest it's good to question the accuracy of any kind of rumor about build plans and also stress that even if a particular data point were factual it would be impossible to accurately interpret the data point as to what it meant for our overall business because the supply chain is very complex and we obviously have multiple sources for things.

Yields might vary, the supplier performance can very, the beginning inventory position can vary. There is just an inordinate long list of things that would make any single data point not a great proxy for what's going on.



The specific rumor he is liking referring to is likely a report from the WSJ that said Apple's orders for iPhone 5 screens for the January-March quarter have dropped to roughly half of what the company had previously planned to order.


Apple Dismisses Reports on Supplier Order Cuts as Meaningless
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Lohlky
Lohlky - January 24, 2013 at 1:49am
I knew it was some kind of bullshit! Why would you cut your suppliers ? Apple wants to dominate every aspect of a cell phone market . In particular wants to beat Samsung.
Mike
Mike - January 24, 2013 at 2:14am
Absolutely agreed!!!
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