{"id":653189,"date":"2013-04-18T12:15:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T16:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=447644"},"modified":"2013-04-18T12:15:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T16:15:27","slug":"apple-reportedly-halts-mac-component-orders-amid-tanking-pc-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/653189","title":{"rendered":"Apple reportedly halts Mac component orders amid tanking PC sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/18\/apple-mac-supply-rumor-447644\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/retina-macbook-pro-7.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Apple reportedly halts Mac supply orders amid tanking PC sales\" title=\"MacBook Pro\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>The <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/11\/pc-sales-decline-analysis-idc-429586\/\">ongoing crash of the PC industry<\/a> hasn&#8217;t just affected <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/windows\">Windows<\/a>-based vendors such as Dell and HP \u2014 it&#8217;s also reportedly taking a toll on <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a>. Supply chain sources <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitimes.com\/news\/a20130417PD220.html\">have told <em>Digitimes<\/em><\/a> that Apple &#8220;stopped placing component orders for its Mac series products recently,&#8221; an indication that the company had significantly overestimated how many Macs it would sell in the first half of 2013.\u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/10\/windows-8-pc-shipments-analysis-429262\/\">most recent numbers from IDC show<\/a> that PC shipments in the first quarter of 2013 fell by 14% year-over-year, while big-name vendors such as HP and ASUS saw their shipment numbers decline by more than 20% year-over-year. IDC also said that while Apple &#8220;fared better than the overall U.S. market,&#8221; it &#8220;still saw shipments decline as its own PCs also face competition from iPads.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/hC8Gpisv6Lk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing crash of the PC industry hasn&#8217;t just affected Windows-based vendors such as Dell and HP \u2014 it&#8217;s also reportedly taking a toll on Apple. Supply chain sources have told Digitimes that Apple &#8220;stopped placing component orders for its Mac series products recently,&#8221; an indication that the company had significantly overestimated how many Macs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}