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Title: Supplier woes suggest Apple Watch sales aren't great Post by: HCK on August 04, 2015, 03:00:12 am Supplier woes suggest Apple Watch sales aren't great
<article> <section class="page"> <p> How well is the Apple Watch selling? Apple isn’t saying much, but that hasn’t kept Bernstein Research anaylist Mark Li from trying to find out. </p><p> According to the Wall Street Journal (http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/07/31/glimmers-emerge-on-apple-watch-sales-and-theyre-not-pretty/), a subsidiary of Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and one of Apple’s suppliers for the Watch told investors that it fell short of a “break-even” number of shipments of its Apple Watch components during the second quarter, and it expects to fall short again in the third quarter. According to Li, it’s very rare for a company to fall short of “break-even” shipments in the third quarter, given the looming holiday rush, and Li says that ASE’s shortfall indicates that Apple Watch sales are lower than expected.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2955123/gadgets/supplier-woes-suggest-apple-watch-sales-arent-great.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Supplier woes suggest Apple Watch sales aren't great (http://www.macworld.com/article/2955123/gadgets/supplier-woes-suggest-apple-watch-sales-arent-great.html#tk.rss_all) |