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In 2021, the company earned approximately $71.6 billion from the sale of iPhones.
Apple is the second smartphone provider in the world, thanks to its flagship product.
By 2022, Apple has made a profit of more than 1,700 US dollars.
Consumers around the world have changed and that is why some products that were perhaps popular many times are not today. As one of the most recent cases is the iPhone 14 Plus, which has not been a great success for the technology brand as expected, so according to some US media, the Cupertino-based company has already suspended production of the device while reassess the claim.
The use of smartphones has grown in recent years, in such a way that currently, according to figures from Gartner, It is estimated that during this year around the world approximately 1,535 million smartphones will be sold worldwide, According to this platform, worldwide income from the sale of these products would exceed 509 billion US dollars.
Other surprising data is that more than eight out of 10 people have mobile coverage in the world, almost half of the world’s population, some 3.6 billion people, use the Internet and have a computer. with connection at home and the average life of a cell phone in the United States, China and Europe does not exceed a year and a half or two years.
In that sense, the well-known iPhone is one of the most sought-after mobiles in the world. Signature datapublished in its annual report, They highlight the Americas as the largest regional market for the technology brand, with net sales of 51.5 billion US dollars in the first quarter of the company’s fiscal year 2022.
For its part, the report also indicates that Europe and China are two other important markets for Apple, with revenues above 25 billion dollars.
In that sense, the flagship product of the brand is the iPhone, which according to its data in the first fiscal quarter of 2022, the company earned approximately US$71.6 billion from the sale of iPhones worldwide.
Apple would have stopped production of the iPhone 14 Plus
The economic crisis in the world has been reflected in the sales of the brand. Well, it hasn’t been that long for Apple, according to The Information, to suspend the production of the device while the demand is reassessed.
According to media sources, the Californian company has asked at least one Chinese manufacturer to “stop immediately” the production of the iPhone 14 Plus.
Likewise, this slowdown in production is due to the fact that they have the objective of analyzing how public orders for this model are developed and then defining the next steps in their delivery strategy.
In this context, the drastic decision affects not only responsible companies of the final assembly of the smartphone, but also to other intermediate members of the production line.
The report details that two service providers responsible for assembling modules with components from different manufacturers reduced the associated tasks to the iPhone 14 Plus by 70 and 90 percent.
In that same order, and according to the American media, Apple’s decision to stop production of the iPhone 14 Plus is not very surprising, since it already showed signs of weak public interest during the presale period; that is, in the weeks prior to market launch.
For his part, the famous analyst Ming-Chi Kuo even revealed in his posts that the reservations of the mentioned model and the normal iPhone 14 were worse than those of the iPhone 13 mini and the third generation iPhone SE.
To date, the media outlet that reported the news has requested a position from the technology brand, but has not received a response.
These movements are not new, since many companies are evaluating their products and productions with the aim of improving what they offer to consumers and thus they do not lose in the market.
In conclusion, this year many industries have been affected by the economic condition that is affecting people globally, where most have had to search to cover their needs, leaving out of their purchases technological items that in other years were a priority.
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