Published on 25 Jan 2022 on MarketWatch
Apple Inc. powered through a pandemic to deliver record holiday and annual sales in 2020, and is expected to push through a supply-chain crisis to beat those records in 2021.
The smartphone giant wasn’t immune from a global supply crunch in the December quarter, but executives at Apple said three months ago that they expected sales to grow from last year’s record despite those issues, despite not issuing a formal forecast. Analysts also generally aren’t sweating the manufacturing issues that drove Apple to during the September period.