{"id":339902,"date":"2017-05-03T05:42:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T21:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/05\/02\/tim-cook-iphone-7-plus-demand\/"},"modified":"2017-05-03T05:42:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T21:42:58","slug":"apple-ceo-tim-cook-demand-was-stronger-towards-iphone-7-plus-than-we-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/apple-ceo-tim-cook-demand-was-stronger-towards-iphone-7-plus-than-we-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple CEO Tim Cook: &#8216;Demand Was Stronger Towards iPhone 7 Plus Than We Expected&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[unable to retrieve full-text content]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple did not expect so many people to choose the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/iphone-7\/\">iPhone 7<\/a> Plus over the iPhone 7, according to statements made by Apple CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/tim-cook\/\">Tim Cook<\/a> during today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/05\/02\/2q-2017-results\/\">second quarter earnings call<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;One of the things we didn&#8217;t get right was the mix between the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus,&#8221; said Cook. &#8220;Demand was much stronger towards the iPhone 7 Plus than we expected.&#8221; Apple&#8217;s misestimation of the popularity of the iPhone 7 Plus led to some shortages of the bigger-screened device during the December quarter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2016\/09\/iphone7plus-lineup-800x628.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"628\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-520035\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nApple sold the highest number of Plus models in the first half of fiscal 2017 than ever before, higher than the iPhone 6 and 6s lineups. Cook says it took Apple a while to &#8220;bring the iPhone 7 Plus into balance,&#8221; something that occurred early in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>According to Cook, Apple learns from its mistakes. &#8220;Every time we launch something, we learn something, and we brush up our models and apply everything we learn for next time,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkback\">Related Roundup: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/iphone-7\/\">iPhone 7<\/a> <\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/threads\/tim-cook-iphone-7-plus-demand.2044082\/\">Discuss this article<\/a> in our forums<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=9uNRE171Xi8:pdQsoPT4tyM:6W8y8wAjSf4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=6W8y8wAjSf4\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=9uNRE171Xi8:pdQsoPT4tyM:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/MacRumors-All\/~4\/9uNRE171Xi8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-339902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}