Technology
Apple sales and profit top estimates as hit from chip shortages eases
Apple is overcoming a costly global shortage of computer chips, posting record sales in the holiday quarter, beating profit forecasts and forecasting its shortfall is narrowing.
Analysts said the iPhone maker, the world’s largest company by market value, has weathered supply chain challenges, such as factory closures and shipping delays from the pandemic, better than any of its top peers. Apple shares rose about 5% in after-hours trading, recovering half of this year’s losses.
More people wanted iPhones, iPads and other gadgets than Apple had to sell during the holiday season, costing the company more than $6 billion in lost sales, or what it feared. However, Apple, the largest customer of many component suppliers, has used its purchasing power to squeeze those suppliers to provide enough products to drive record sales in its iPhones, Macs and wearables and accessories. Apple executives said the chip shortage mainly affected its older products, especially slowing iPad sales.
“They navigate the supply chain better than anyone, and that’s reflected in the results,” said Ryan Reith, who researches the smartphone market for industry tracker IDC.
Apple said the four best-selling phones in Chinese cities were all iPhone models because rivals struggled to make their products. It was the top-selling supplier in China for the first time in six years, research firm Counterpoint Research reported on Wednesday.
Apple’s growing sales of services such as music, TV and fitness subscriptions are also helping to cushion the blow from a shortage of devices. The company said it now has 785 million paying subscribers on at least seven of its subscription services, up 40 million from the previous quarter, and assuaged investor concerns about slowing growth in rivals such as Netflix Inc.
Better yet, Apple CFO Luca Maestri told Reuters that easing the chip shortage should mean a loss of less than $6 billion in revenue for the quarter. But he declined to further estimate the future.
“The extent of the restrictions will largely depend on how other companies, other companies and other industries will have demand for chips,” he said.
The iPhone 13, which began shipping just days before the start of the quarter, brought in $71.6 billion in global handset sales for Apple, up 9% from the 2020 holiday quarter and easily beating Wall Street’s targets, according to Refinitiv data. Maestri attributed the sales growth to a record number of upgrades to older iPhones and a double-digit increase in the number of people switching from competitors.
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Hollywood
Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025
Tom Holland, last seen in Apple TV show The Crowded Room last year, has signed his next with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Christopher Nolan.
Tom Holland is going to have a very busy 2025. As per The Hollywood Reporter, the actor has signed Christopher Nolan’s next, which he will juggle the filming of with that of the long-awaited Spider-Man 4. (Also Read – Tom Holland shares why he left alcohol behind: ‘Struggling without booze…’)
Tom signs Nolan’s next
This will mark the first collaboration between Tom and Christopher. While details of his next directorial aren’t known yet, it’s most likely not to have a contemporary setting. It’ll be either set in the past like, his previous film Oppenheimer (2023), or in the future like Interstellar (2014). Matt Damon, who has worked with Christopher in both, has also come on board his next.
Christopher’s next will be co-produced by him and his wife Emma Thomas’ banner Syncopy Inc and Universal Pictures, as the two production houses will team up after the Academy Award-winning blockbuster Oppenheimer last year. Prior to Oppenheimer, Christopher collaborated mostly with Warner Bros before having a fallout post the debacle of Tenet (2020).
Warner Bros then went on to produce Greta Gerwig’s musical satire Barbie, which clashed with Oppenheimer at the box office and even outperformed it globally. Warner Bros offered Christopher a cheque for the fees he waived off for helming Tenet during the pandemic. While Christopher graciously accepted the belated remuneration, he still went on to pitch his next to Warner Bros.
Tom’s busy schedule
Tom didn’t have any release this year. His last outing was Todd Graff’s psychological thriller show The Crowded Room on Apple TV last year. He’ll juggle the filming of Christopher Nolan’s next and Spider-Man 4 in 2025. Tom has been playing the superhero ever since Russo Brothers’ 2016 blockbuster Captain America: Civil War. He’s slipped into the Peter Parker shoes post that for three standalone films and two Avengers movies. Spider-Man 4 will be helmed by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton.
As Tom’s girlfriend and co-star Zendaya will be busy filming Spider-Man 4 in 2025, she’ll reprise her role of Chani in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi spectacle Dune 3 only in 2026. Meanwhile, Tom is also likely to make an appearance as Spider-Man in Russo Brothers’ Avengers: Doomsday, which will go on floors in the spring of 2025.
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