14 DAY TRIAL // Catcher Technology, a company that used to do (and probably still does) business with Apple, is reportedly expecting its revenues to pick up steam.
The reason may be that Apple has tapped the Chinese company to make a new iPhone chassis, according to market watchers cited by DigiTimes in Taiwan. However, Catcher is known to be making notebook cases for Apple, not smartphone enclosures.
Catcher Technology chairman Hung Shui-shu tells media outlets in Asia that the company “expects its revenue performance to start picking up in the third quarter due to new smartphone orders from an old client,” according to the aforementioned publication.
Market watchers reportedly believe these orders are for “Apple's new iPhone products.”
Apple is expected to deploy two new iPhone models this year, a 5S upgrade which retains the aluminum chassis of the current-selling model, and a budget version (reportedly dubbed iPhone 5C) featuring iPhone 5 insides and a polycarbonate / plastic enclosure.