[sigh] Here’s WSJ from January 2013: Apple Inc. has cut its orders for components for the iPhone 5 due to weaker-than-expected demand, people familiar with th

[sigh] Here’s WSJ from January 2013: Apple Inc. has cut its orders for components for the iPhone 5 due to weaker-than-expected demand, people familiar with the situation said Monday. Apple’s orders for iPhone 5 screens for the January-March quarter, for example, have dropped to roughly half of what the company had previously planned to order, two of the people said. http://www.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424127887323596204578240440691304344-lMyQjAxMTAzMDEwMzExNDMyWj.html http://www.wsj.com/article_email/SB1000142412788732359620457... So WSJ says 50% drop in orders for the January-March quarter. Yet when you look at Apple's actual results for that January to March quarter iPhone experienced a YoY increase. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2013/04/23Apple-Reports-Second-Quarter-Results.html http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2013/04/23Apple-Reports-Seco... Fool me once WSJ... Journalists should be very careful when quoting component manufacturers. Apple often buys all the components a manufacturer can make (and then buys them a factory to make more, and then buys all the machines in the world that can be used to make the parts, etc). Apple quite literally can make or break a component manufacturer (GT Advanced comes to mind...), so manufacturers willing to talk to the press usually have an angle or axe to grind.