{"id":665601,"date":"2026-11-03T12:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T12:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/665601\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T12:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T12:36:12","slug":"apple-unsure-when-it-will-get-more-foldable-iphones-ahead-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/665601\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple unsure when it will get more foldable iPhones ahead of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Apple has said it does not know when it will get more of its new foldable iPhones back in stock as the company heads towards the key Christmas trading period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The iPhone Duo sold out just over a week after its launch, despite being Apple&#8217;s most expensive smartphone at a cost of nearly $2,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The company warned of &#8220;constraints&#8221; in sourcing key components and admitted it was &#8220;really hard to predict when supply and demand will be in balance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Apple&#8217;s new chief executive John Ternus said the firm was seeing an &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; price rise in memory costs, including chips, as the artificial intelligence (AI) industry continues to invest billions of dollars in building data centres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ternus launched the Duo after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c1kr19lry18o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">took over from previous boss Tim Cook<\/a> in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is the smartphone&#8217;s first major design change in almost 20 years but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c893zwlev2xpo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">some buyers have reported problems with the Duo&#8217;s screen<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last week, the company said it would replace any handsets that were affected by an issue that caused a &#8220;small number&#8221; to crack along the inside fold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As it released its latest financial figures on Monday, Apple&#8217;s executives did not mention any problems with the iPhone Duo. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ternus said he was &#8220;thrilled&#8221; by the early reaction to the foldable phone. Chief operating officer Sabih Khan said the company was working hard to get the Duo &#8220;into the hands of our customers as quickly as possible&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Apple&#8217;s results for the three months to 26 September did not include sales of the Duo, which was released at the end of October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nevertheless, Apple said it had sold more iPhones globally over the last year than ever before. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">iPhone revenue for the quarter rose 17% to $57bn (\u00a342bn). <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sales of Mac computers also grew over the three months by 27% to a record $10.7bn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Overall, Apple&#8217;s sales between July and September rose from $102bn to $114bn. Pre-tax profit also increased, from $32.8bn to $36.1bn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, sales for both the iPad and Apple&#8217;s wearable products, including its headphones and watch, fell by 10% and 7%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Khan said that most Apple devices were still experiencing supply constraints driven in part by difficulty in getting enough microprocessors with advanced nodes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Those components are essentially computer chip technology that allow Apple devices to operate more quickly, most of which it has manufactured through TSMC, which is based in Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Khan said the problem was expected to continue into next year, particularly impacting iPads and Macs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The situation has been made worse by what the company has repeatedly insisted is &#8220;unexpected demand&#8221; for its products.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ternus noted, too, that Apple is still seeing &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; cost increases for memory, or the ability of devices to store data like apps, photos and text messages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Much memory storage runs through data centres, which have experienced a boom in demand for space as AI chatbots and platforms &#8211; including those developed by the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic &#8211; have become popular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple has said it does not know when it will get more of its new foldable iPhones back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[85,46,321,125],"class_list":["post-665601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}