Apple faced with shrinking sales iPhones this year “- GSM Helpdesk Netherlands

For eight years, Apple did every year again its record sales of Apple iPhones break from previous years. One need therefore to have studied not rocket science to know that it reaches a ceiling at some point. That ceiling Apple seems to have achieved this year.

In the last quarter of 2015 was already apparent that the number of iPhones sold was only marginally increased compared to the last quarter of 2014. As predicted Phone Helpdesk already 2016 was going to be for Apple, already is GSM Helpdesk time being that Apple this year under the influence of the Apple iPhone 7 will still show once growth in a challenging year.

iPhone sales this year under the 200 million

the leading analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities, which has proven in the past excellent sources have around Apple, the future of the company round iPhones looks gloomier in. Ming-Chi Kuo predicts that Apple this year between 190 and 210 million iPhones will sell, with the scenario that the sales numbers go diving is most obvious among the 200 million.

iPhone 7 Apple will not save

According to Ming-Chi Kuo, the Apple iPhone 7 not save Apple’s continued growth. As in recent months has already been leaked, it seems that the Apple iPhone 7 will be more an evolutionary successor to the Apple iPhone 6S, then a revolutionary new model. In terms of design, the device would be almost identical to the iPhone 6S and functional improvement, such as the much discussed dual-camera, will fewer people a reason the iPhone 7 to buy, so think Ming-Chi Kuo.

Previously, Apple’s tradition to present a completely new model every two years. At present it seems that Apple needs an extra year ‘waiting’ to introduce a revolutionary model. The iPhones for 2017, namely AMOLED displays that Apple expects the possibility of giving a whole new design to tap opportunities. The AMOLED displays are said to be this year is not yet available for iPhones.

Emerging markets offer no compensation

Apple has also yet another problem too camps. The growth in sales of iPhones is mainly driven in recent years by emerging markets. Also affect these markets saturated. The demand from developed markets late years in a row to see a decline in demand for iPhones, emerging markets can not compensate for this fall in demand, which will shrink the sales of iPhones.

Moreover, Apple will be a small contraction not really lie awake. Apple is currently working with Samsung one of the few manufacturers to make gains on the sale of smartphones. In fact, over 90 percent of all profits made in the smartphone market to Apple flows. On a quarterly basis, Apple alone makes its iPhones a profit of between 10 and 20 billion dollars, astronomical amounts compared to the marginal profits or even significant losses make other smartphone manufacturers.