The iPhone 14 Professional Max’s excessive price ticket is not scaring away patrons, in line with a report by Apple provide chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. In a abstract report compiled after the primary weekend of the iPhone 14 being on sale, Kuo says the iPhone 14 Professional Max has made up 30-35% of complete iPhone 14 household gross sales, making it the one hottest of the brand new telephones. 

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The 2 A16 Bionic-based iPhone Professional fashions are collectively proving extra widespread  than the 2 fashions primarily based on the older Apple A15 Bionic chip, the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus. Kuo says the Professional and Professional Max will account for 60-65% of gross sales for this gross sales interval, which is barely larger than his personal authentic estimate of 55-60%. 

One of many two A15 iPhones, the iPhone 14 Plus is presently solely accessible for pre-order, and is not scheduled to begin transport till October 7. It is unclear how Kuo has come by his gross sales information, as Apple doesn’t share gross sales information damaged down by particular person fashions – Kuo has previously used casual checks of the Apple Retailer net web page as a foundation for guesswork. 

[Analysis] Apple、iPhone 14與供應鏈的近期趨勢預測 / Some predictions for the current tendencies of Apple, iPhone 14, and provide chain @mingchikuo https://t.co/nNReMRcGQHSeptember 20, 2022

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Kuo says the combination of iPhone product gross sales is bettering, and that might be a very good factor for Apple in the long term. The analyst factors out that the beneficiaries of Apple’s gross sales bonanza will embody the producers of every particular person element and sensor that goes contained in the telephone, together with Samsung Show, which makes the display, and Sony, which makes the brand new 48MP digicam.

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As we’re nonetheless attending to know our iPhone 14 units, and as we look ahead to the subsequent era, we’re happy to see Apple promoting a very good mixture of units, and in addition the slight dominance of iPhone 14 Professional fashions. What we actually need is for the subsequent era iPhone 15 to get as lots of the Professional options as attainable – and the extra Professional units Apple sells, the extra possible that turns into. 

Going again to Kuo’s level about element makers, these fancy iPhone 14 Professional Dynamic Island shows value extra to make than the cheaper notch show on the iPhone 14 – till, that’s, Samsung Show and others begin making sufficient of them that the dimensions of manufacturing brings down the associated fee. 

Which means we’re extra prone to see the Dynamic Island, and presumably different Professional options, just like the 48MP digicam, on the base-model iPhone 15 if Apple can promote sufficient iPhone 14 Execs and Professional Maxs with these options this yr.