Apple is just not anticipating a drop in iPhone gross sales in 2022 amid an total smartphone market slowdown, reviews Bloomberg. The Cupertino firm is anticipating continued sturdy demand for the ‌iPhone‌ and has requested suppliers to make 90 million iPhone 14 fashions, which is on par with iPhone 13 manufacturing in the identical time interval final 12 months.

Apple is anticipating to manufacture roughly 220 million iPhones in whole in 2022, which is in line with 2021 manufacturing. Sources that spoke to Bloomberg stated that Apple is ready to climate a downturn in the smartphone market as a result of the Apple buyer base remains to be keen to spend cash on premium units.

Prior to 2021, new ‌iPhone‌ launches noticed Apple manufacturing round 75 million units. That was bumped up to 90 million in 2021 as the corporate anticipated excessive demand for the ‌iPhone 13‌ fashions, and Apple is sticking with that focus on degree for 2022.

Whereas few adjustments are anticipated for the usual ‌iPhone 14‌ fashions, the higher-end iPhone 14 Professional fashions will function a brand new notchless design (with hole-punch and pill-shaped digital camera cutouts), an upgraded 48-megapixel digital camera, a sooner A16 chip, an always-on show, and extra.

Present rumors recommend that the ‌iPhone 14 Professional‌ fashions may have a better beginning value than the iPhone 13 Professional fashions, growing the common promoting value of iPhones in 2022. Apple has not supplied income steering since 2020, however Apple CFO Luca Maestri stated in the course of the firm’s second quarter earnings name that income development is anticipated to speed up in the September quarter, and provide constraints are anticipated to be decrease than they have been in the June quarter.