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Apple A9 chip fab TSMC reports record earnings, casting further doubt on 'Peak iPhone'
A bit of Spinning and selective reporting going on in this article.
TSMC also said this:
"Demand for high-end smartphones has started the year weak, while in other segments there are already signs of upward demand momentum in emerging markets including China, the world's biggest for smartphones, TSMC said." http://www.reuters.com/article/us-tsmc-results-idUSKCN0US11720160114
Wall St Journal:
"Apple’s Slowing iPhone Sales Take Bite Out of Suppliers’ Revenues
Taiwan’s TSMC expects first-quarter revenue to fall more than 10% on slower demand for smartphones" http://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-slowing-iphone-sales-take-bite-out-of-suppliers-revenue-1452773860ByJan. 14, 2016 7:17 a.m. ETEva DouTAIPEI—Companies that make parts for Apple Inc. are warning of lower first-half revenues, in a sign of slowing sales of the latest iPhones.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. , which manufactures the chips that run iPhones and other popular electronic devices, forecast Thursday its first-quarter revenue would decline by as much as 10.8% from the previous year, citing demand weakness for high-end smartphones." http://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-slowing-iphone-sales-take-bite-out-of-suppliers-revenue-1452773860
Apple components contribute 20% of sales for TSMC, the world’s largest contract chip maker, according to a Credit Suisse report.
Largan Precision Co. , which supplies iPhone camera modules, said it expected “quite a weak” first quarter, while Catcher Technology Co. , a maker of iPhone metal casings, said its revenue for the first half would be flat from a year earlier."http://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-slowing-iphone-sales-take-bite-out-of-suppliers-revenue-1452773860
Seems to be a bit of variance from DED's quite astonishing interpretation of TSMC's results. Looks like he ignored what they actually said.
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EU ruling against Belgian corporate tax breaks may set precedent for decision on Apple
gatorguy said:cnocbui said:We are still having to deal with fallout caused by your last Republican presidency - ISIS, refugees, etc. I don't think Europe could survive a Trump Presidency.
Our corporation taxes are lower than they are in the US - try again.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/isis-atrocities-in-iraq-r_b_5661346.htmlISIS Atrocities in Iraq Represent the Catastrophic Failure of Bush Doctrine and Neoconservative Foreign Policy
http://www.businessinsider.com/saddam-husseins-old-party-is-behind-iraq-chaos-2014-6?op=1&IR=TSaddam Hussein's Old Party Is Behind A Lot Of The Chaos In Iraq ... Among the more noteworthy of the parties aligned with ISIS is the Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order. The Naqshbandis, located primarily in Mosul, were formed in 2007 by former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-fein/rand-paul-is-right-republ_b_7552956.htmlRand Paul Is Right: Republican Neocons Created ISIS
The Paris bombings, the million plus refugees flooding into Europe, The rapes and assaults on women in Cologne, can all be traced back to the neo-conns and their puppet president.
Donald Trump praises Kim Jong-un for his firm hand with executed uncle
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Apple's new 4-inch handset rumored to be named 'iPhone 5e,' sport A8 CPU & 1GB RAM
sog35 said:cnocbui said:If the rumoured price is correct, you would be so wrong there.
Xiaomi Mi5: "The new phone starts at just 699 yuan (roughly $107). It packs a 5-inch 720p display, a long-lasting 4100mAh battery, a Snapdragon 616 processor, a 13-megapixel camera, 2GB of RAM and 16GB of expandable storage. It also runs Xiaomi’s latest MiUI 7 Android-based software."
...and it is metal, not plastic.
By the way Xiaomi unit sells have been down about 20% this holiday season. And Xiaomi has missed their goal of 100,000,000 units sold in 2015 by 20,000,000-40,000,000 units. Their ponzi scheme is about to end. The only reason they could get away with selling phones for a lost was because of unit growth. Now that growth has stopped they will go bankrupt.
I watched a BBC program last night about a Bangladesh <--> India train service. They looked at a young guy who rides the train selling bars of chocolate. He had a wife and two children to support. They showed him taking a huge gamble in investing in his business by buying a plastic ice box/cooler to make his wares more appealing and less molten. It had taken this man 3 years to scrape together the £18 the cooler cost.
Earlier today i was reading an article about an area in Indonesia where a lot of families send their early to mid-teen daughters off to population centres to work as prostitutes so they can send back money to their families, an area where schooling is so poor and inadequate it peters out at age 12 and there is no High School.
There are billions of people on this planet who can't afford your first -world self-satisfied and financially smug OS snobbery.
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Apple's competition is going to have a tough year in 2016
singularity said:xbit said:I prefer John Gruber's writing. Gruber clearly writes from the perspective of an Apple fan but still manages to maintain some objectivity. Gruber builds such a compelling (and concise!) case, when he writes, that he never needs to make spurious statements like '[Apple] sold the only profitable tablets and smartwatch'.
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Rumor: Apple to debut Bluetooth earbuds alongside 'iPhone 7,' with truly wireless left & right earp
mac_128 said:atlapple said:Good to see Apple is going to get rid of an universal port in favor of making most users buy yet again another dongle. Unlike getting rid of optical drives in Macs there is no real space saving benefits to getting rid of a 3.5mm jack.Let me guess you're just learning to read. I made it clear in both of my posts that getting rid of optical drives made sense because there was a clear benefit. Getting rid of a 3.5mm jack has no clear benefit when it comes to reducing size. If you're going to comment on my posts at lease read them.