{"id":124329,"date":"2022-04-28T21:45:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T21:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/22\/04\/28\/apple-says-reduced-ipad-revenue-is-partially-a-result-of-supply-constraints?utm_medium=rss"},"modified":"2022-04-28T21:45:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T21:45:33","slug":"apple-says-reduced-ipad-revenue-is-partially-a-result-of-supply-constraints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/04\/28\/apple-says-reduced-ipad-revenue-is-partially-a-result-of-supply-constraints\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple says reduced iPad revenue is partially a result of supply constraints"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p> <em> AppleInsider is supported by its audience and may earn commission as an Amazon Associate and affiliate partner on qualifying purchases. These affiliate partnerships do not influence our editorial content. <\/em> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/ipad\">iPad<\/a> line brought in $7.65 billion in revenue in Q2 2022, down year-over-year from 2021, and Apple attributes this to supply constraints rather than lack of demand.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>Apple brought in <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/22\/04\/28\/apple-has-another-record-breaking-quarter-reporting-9728-in-revenue-for-q2-2022\">$97.28 billion<\/a> in revenue and the iPad contributed to $7.65 billion of that. This is down from $7.8 billion from <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/21\/04\/28\/ipad-and-mac-growth-continue-unabated-in-q2-2021\">Q2 2021<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>During the quarterly <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/22\/04\/28\/notes-of-interest-from-apples-q2-2022-earnings-report-and-conference-call\">Apple earnings call<\/a>, Apple CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/tim-cook\">Tim Cook<\/a> commented on the decline in iPad revenue, pointing out that supply constraints have had an effect on sales. He asserted that demand for iPad, and specifically the new <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/ipad-air-5\">iPad Air 5<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/m1\">M1<\/a> processor, was still strong.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>According to Cook, the install base for the iPad is at an all-time high. Also, half of the customers buying an iPad were first-time buyers of the device.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>Every other category Apple provides data for had <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/22\/04\/28\/apple-sees-march-quarter-records-for-iphone-mac-services-more\">an increase<\/a> in revenue overall. While Apple says supply chains were at fault, other issues could include lower demand in tablets now that COVID lockdowns have ended or potential customers being steered towards the <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/apple-silicon\">Apple Silicon<\/a>-powered <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/mac\" title=\"Mac\">Macs<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<div class=\"align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/apple-says-reduced-ipad-revenue-is-partially-a-result-of-supply-constraints.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/apple-says-reduced-ipad-revenue-is-partially-a-result-of-supply-constraints.jpg\" alt=\"iPad quarterly revenue\" height=\"720\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"img-responsive article-image\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"carousel-caption\">iPad quarterly revenue<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>Apple guides that its third quarter will continue to be an unknown and it <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/22\/04\/28\/apple-forecasts-4b-to-8b-revenue-hit-in-q3-because-of-covid-disruptions\">is difficult<\/a> to provide guidance due to a number of factors. COVID continues to impact the supply chain, and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine means <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/22\/03\/01\/apple-temporarily-halts-all-online-sales-in-russia\">no sales<\/a> in Russia. It isn&#8217;t clear if iPad revenue will recover in Q3.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AppleInsider is supported by its audience and may earn commission as an Amazon Associate and affiliate partner on qualifying purchases. These affiliate partnerships do not influence our editorial content. The iPad line brought in $7.65 billion in revenue in Q2 2022, down year-over-year from 2021, and Apple attributes this to supply constraints rather than lack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-insider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}