Investment financial institution Wedbush’s analyst Daniel Ives has created an Apple investor wish checklist for the subsequent yr based on a be aware seen by AppleInsider.
The
iPhone 12 collection and Apple’s Services unit come first and second, respectively, on the checklist of the high ten issues that would make 2021 a powerful yr for each Apple and its traders.
Ives believes that an
iPhone 12 supercycle is underway and he claims that the new collection is monitoring higher than some other cycle in the final decade.
He says that traders ought to hope that the iPhone 12 stays on monitor and complete shipments hit 240 million models in 2021. Another aim is that the Services unit carry $65B in annual revenues.
The vacation wish checklist additionally expects all iPhone 13 fashions to function the LiDAR expertise and doubled storage capability.
Other gadgets on the checklist embrace a WWDC 2021 unveiling for the
Apple Glass augmented actuality headset and the acquisition of a main film or TV studio. Also included is the continuation of Mac’s transition to
proprietary chips.
A current report means that Apple is planning to launch an
autonomous automobile in 2024 with a breakthrough battery expertise and Ives thinks Apple ought to start laying the groundwork subsequent yr by asserting an EV partnership. Tesla and VW have been talked about as “golden partnership” prospects. Elon Musk just lately mentioned that he needed to promote Tesla to Apple “during the darkest days of the Model 3 program,” however CEO Tim Cook “refused to take the assembly”.
Ives additionally hopes that Apple will settle its ongoing
battle with Epic Games and the incoming administration will ratchet down tensions between the U.S. and China.