Analyst says Apple can have 84 million iPhone 15 sequence items manufactured this 12 months, up 12% from 2022.
Earlier than the brand new iPhone handsets are unveiled, mass manufacturing of the brand new handsets will kick off and Pu says that this may begin subsequent month. This 12 months, the analyst writes that Apple can have 84 million items manufactured through the second half of this 12 months. That determine represents a wholesome 12% improve over the variety of iPhone 14 items produced through the second half of final 12 months. It additionally reveals that Apple is extraordinarily assured that demand for the most recent iPhone sequence might be stronger this 12 months.
The iPhone 15 Professional and iPhone 15 Professional Max might be powered by a 3nm chipset made by TSMC
A part of that considering is as a result of massive variety of energetic iPhone customers (believed to be 25%) who have not upgraded to a brand new mannequin during the last 4 years. Some analysts count on a big share of those iPhone customers, representing latent demand, to be out there for a brand new iPhone this 12 months or subsequent. However there may be some probably unhealthy information on the horizon for these within the iPhone 15 Professional Max.
The iPhone 15 Professional Max would be the solely iPhone to characteristic a periscope lens
Pu says that he expects Apple to hike the value of its top-of-the-line handset from the $1,099 beginning value that the Professional Max fashions have been priced at because the first Professional Max mannequin (the iPhone Xs Professional Max) was launched in 2018. However in contrast to earlier years, the iPhone 15 Professional Max can have a characteristic that it will not share with the iPhone 15 Professional. This “unique Professional Max characteristic” is a periscope lens that can improve the optical zoom from 3x to as excessive as 6x.
All 4 iPhone 15 fashions are rumored to get a hike in battery capability and the entire line can have a USB-C port on the underside of the system the place the proprietary Lightning port was. If the previous is prologue, we must always see Apple unveil the 2023 iPhone fashions this September as we identified on the prime of this story. We may additionally see the Apple Watch Sequence 9 and the second-generation Apple Watch Extremely launched through the occasion. The following-generation of AirPods aren’t anticipated to be a part of this September’s occasion.
As quickly as Apple declares a date for the upcoming new product introduction occasion, we’ll go it alongside to you.
