By 2013, The iPhone Will Create Virtually Half of Apple's Revenue?- Without An iPhone Nano
The iPhone could generate practically half of Apple's revenue by calendar 2013, using the tech giant forecasted to sell 143 million smartphones and 68 million iPads, in accordance with a high-profile analyst Wednesday.
Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster expects the iPhone will represent 49 % of Apple's $164 billion revenue for 2013, the handset's growth slowing only slightly to 29 %, down from 30 percent expected in 2012. Munster also threw water on speculation Apple will introduce a contract-free low-cost iPhone to compete with much less expensive Android-based smartphones.
As an alternative, Apple will maintain a relatively steady regular promoting price for the iPhone, falling from $603 in 2012 to $565 in calendar 2013. "In other words, we tend not to believe Apple demands an ultra low finish providing to develop iPhone units at 30 percent" he told investors. In the event the Cupertino, Calif. company had been to introduce a prepaid iPhone for underneath $200, "our unit estimates will be as well reduced and our ASPs could be too high"
Apple will also carry on double-digit development rates for its wildly common iPad tablet, according to the analyst. He predicts the iPad will likely be 21 % of Apple's 2013 income, with sales of 68 million units. As within the iPhone's, situation, iPad sales growth will decline slightly, falling to 35 % in calendar 2013, down from 39 percent in 2012. The tablet's common selling price tag will slide from $575 to $555, based on Munster.
As we see the continued development of iPhone and iPad sales and their raising significance to Apple's bottom-line, Mac sales are following an opposite trend-line. Growth of Macs sales will fall to 15 percent in 2013, down from 17 % expected in 2012. The Mac line will represent 16 percent of Apple revenue on sales of 23 million units two years from now, the analyst expects. As the Mac's importance falters, Apple will drop the typical promoting price tag to $1,175 in 2013, down from $1,257 forecast for 2012.
Despite the fact that growth appears to be slowing from Apple's products, it appears to be ahead of Pc makers, that are hard pressed to push demand for gadgets which should compete against Cupertino.
