Apple Will Make At Least $100 Million From New iPhone 5 Dock Cables

Apple's decision to switch to a smaller dock connector for the iPhone 5 may frustrate consumers whose old cables and accessories are essentially rendered obsolete, but it should give Apple and other iPhone accessories manufacturers a nice little revenue boost.

Apple will generate about $40 million in revenue in the next fiscal quarter from customers worldwide paying for cables that work with the iPhone 5's new dock connector and at least $100 million in revenue from the new cables over the course of the next year, according to an estimate provided to Mashable by Michael Morgan, a senior analyst with ABI Research covering mobile devices.

Morgan predicts that Apple will ship 47 milli…
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