The year 2010 was one of the most profitable in Apple's history, the company managing to surpass Microsoft in terms of stock market capitalization, growth helped by the launches of 2 very good products that still record strong sales. The year 2011 is announced to be a new source of records for Apple because American analysts estimate that the company will sell 100 million iPhone terminals and 40 million iPad tablets. Initially, it was assumed that worldwide sales of iPhone terminals would reach somewhere around 72 million and iPad tablets somewhere around 30, but the recent launch of the iPhone 4 CDMA led to an increase in these figures and the iPad 2 will definitely generate more sales than its younger sister.
In addition to upward revisions from the recent Verizon launch, our meetings highlighted long iPhone lead times in China given strong demand. iPad touch panels, the major bottleneck over the past several quarters and 10-15% of the iPad's bill of materials, are now produced at 90% manufacturing yields with potential cost benefits passed on to Apple this year.
Although Steve Jobs left temporarily leadership Apple, he will be involved in most of the company's strategic decisions. Apple has one of the best management teams in the world at the moment and considering the upward trend of recent years, many analysts suggest that Apple, even without Steve Jobs, will have an equally difficult word to say in the years to come. follow.
