iPhones, however, are different. Every year they get production cut rumors. And this year is no different: Apple cuts iPhone 18 Pro orders due to soft demand.
Nobody likes maroon. The Macalope could have told you that. It’s just a bad color.
This “news” comes from none other than Nikkei, purveyors of bombastic iPhone production cut rumors since 1973, a full three years before Apple was formed. No one had any idea what they were talking about for 34 years. Nikkei’s most garment-rending rendition was the 2017 iPhone X production cuts, which the outfit said were of such magnitude that Apple was producing negative iPhones, actually pulling already manufactured iPhones apart and putting the aluminum back into the ground.
Okay, not really, but it was wildly off, so take these reports with a salt-lick-sized grain of salt. It’s probably true that the price increase on the iPhone Pro line has not helped its attractiveness. Or maybe people were drawn to another, even more expensive option, because Apple apparently can’t make iPhone Duos fast enough.
Certainly not fast enough for Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who said Apple made a “major mistake” with the iPhone Duo. What is this “major mistake’,” you may ask? Were credit cards charged twice? Thrice? Did every iPhone Duo ship with a dirty hypodermic needle in the box, just waiting to stab unsuspecting customers? Did some of the profits from each Duo go to a ridiculous vanity project, the real goal of which was to force companies to curry favor with a kleptocratic regime?
[Turns and stares unblinking into camera for 45 minutes]
