And is that a recent report from well-known Japanese economic daily Nikkei, warns that the production lines of Foxconn and Pegatron would now be decreasing the manufacture of this device that is called to be a best seller this year.
Of the 60 production lines that are destined for the iPhone XR, 45 are already "only" working., as explained by the Nikkei media. All this suggests that sales of these devices are not going as well as expected and this could be a problem for the company's shareholders.
100.000 iPhone XR a day is few
And is that the figures that come out of the stoppage of these production lines are those 100.000 devices a day and that being quite optimistic, which would confirm that they are not positive figures. At Pegatron the plan to expand production lines was halted And this is not positive considering that the holidays are just around the corner.
Sales predictions that are based directly on suppliers are half good, but when this news comes from the production chains themselves, such as those at Foxconn and Pegatron, things get more serious. The current quarter did not convince shareholders too much and now Apple will no longer show more information on device sales by quarter. This fully affects the sales forecasts for the current Christmas quarter but of course, we will not know official data and Apple will be able to say that sales are still record ...
For now we have to add to the Nikkei report, the data that comes from the Wistron firm, which is the one that Apple recurs in case of collapse in production lines and that in this case there are no movements for the new iPhone XR for the Christmas campaign. Undoubtedly a piece of news that will have to be followed closely to verify the veracity, but it does not look too good.
