{"id":1500518,"date":"2024-11-05T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1500518"},"modified":"2024-11-05T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T18:45:00","slug":"foxconn-sales-growth-slows-amid-underwhelming-ai-enabled-iphone-upgrade-supercycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/foxconn-sales-growth-slows-amid-underwhelming-ai-enabled-iphone-upgrade-supercycle\/1500518\/","title":{"rendered":"Foxconn Sales Growth Slows Amid Underwhelming\u00a0AI-Enabled iPhone Upgrade Supercycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Foxconn Sales Growth Slows Amid Underwhelming\u00a0AI-Enabled iPhone Upgrade Supercycle<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Hon Hai Precision Industry, also known as Foxconn, which makes most of the world&#8217;s Apple iPhones, reported Tuesday the slowest\u00a0monthly sales growth since February, stoking major concerns the upgrade cycle for new AI-enabled iPhones underwhelms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Per the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-11-05\/iphone-maker-hon-hai-s-october-sales-growth-slows-on-weak-demand\">Bloomberg<\/a> report:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Hon Hai, also a key server assembly partner to Nvidia Corp., on Tuesday <\/em><strong><em>reported sales of NT$804.9 billion ($25.2 billion) for October, up 8.6%. Analysts expect the company to grow its sales by 15% to NT$2.13 trillion in the current quarter<\/em><\/strong><em>. The iPhone assembler&#8217;s tepid sales growth appeared to <\/em><strong><em>reinforce Apple&#8217;s weak forecast for the holiday quarter<\/em><\/strong><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Foxconn\u00a0is Apple&#8217;s primary manufacturing partner, assembling most of its iPhones. This tight\u00a0relationship implies Hon Hai&#8217;s revenue and growth are closely tied to Apple&#8217;s performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2024-11-05_07-38-19.png?itok=GWdYvihi\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/apple-slides-after-missing-wearables-china-and-service-revenues-another-disappointing\">Apple earnings<\/a> revealed Apple Intelligence was a dud and did not spark a massive new\u00a0iPhone upgrade supercycle Wall Street analysts were hoping for. Sales in China slid for the\u00a0fifth consecutive quarter as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/technology\/huawei-reveals-most-powerful-mate-smartphone-launching-month\">Hawuei<\/a> continued taking market share.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/AAPL%20breakdown%20geo%20q3%202024.jpg?itok=b4KSFUSX\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hon Hai&#8217;s earnings merely reflect\u00a0Apple&#8217;s slowing iPhone sales, thus making it a\u00a0proxy for the world&#8217;s most valuable company&#8217;s performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Warren Buffett&#8217;s Berkshire Hathaway <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/buffett-calls-top-berkshire-dumps-100-million-apple-shares-unprecedented-selling-spree\">continued dumping Apple<\/a> shares last quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All this combined is not the best news for Apple investors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Snag_699e48b8.png?itok=ONZDpBMJ\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moar buybacks, please, Tim Cook.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Tue, 11\/05\/2024 &#8211; 08:45<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/technology\/foxconn-sales-growth-slows-amid-underwhelming-ai-enabled-iphone-upgrade-supercycle\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/technology\/foxconn-sales-growth-slows-amid-underwhelming-ai-enabled-iphone-upgrade-supercycle<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foxconn Sales Growth Slows Amid Underwhelming\u00a0AI-Enabled iPhone Upgrade Supercycle Hon Hai Precision Industry, also known as Foxconn, which makes most of the world&#8217;s Apple iPhones,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1500519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1500518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-6ilU","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/11\/2024-11-05_07-38-19-geTvC0.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1500519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}