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Apple iPhone Output in China Ramps Up Despite Covid Woes

December 29, 2022

Via: The Wall Street Journal

Covid-19 issues in China are still hampering manufacturing of Apple Inc.’s AAPL 3.14%increase; green up pointing triangle iPhone, but production is beginning to catch up to demand for the more-expensive Pro models, according to analysts and people involved in the […]


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Apple to delay mass production of 2020 flagship iPhones

April 27, 2020

Via: Reuters

(Reuters) – Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is delaying the production ramp-up of its flagship iPhones coming later this year by about a month as the coronavirus pandemic has weakened global consumer demand and disrupted manufacturing across Asia, the Wall Street Journal […]


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Top Apple iPhone maker Foxconn restarts key China plant with 10% of workers: source

February 10, 2020

Via: Reuters

Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker, got the green light to restart production in the eastern central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, said the person with direct knowledge of the matter. The company, however, has not yet been allowed […]


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Apple taps recycled rare earth elements for iPhone parts

September 18, 2019

Via: Reuters

Apple said it will used recycled rare earths in its “Taptic Engine,” a part that lets iPhones mimic a physical button click despite being a flat pane of glass. The part is about one-quarter of the rare earth elements inside […]


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Apple iPhone, Amazon Echo Production Moving From China to India

August 30, 2019

Via: Industry Week

On a steamy summer morning, dozens of buses pull up outside a cluster of low-slung, blue buildings in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Women dressed in colorful salwar kameezes disembark, their dupatta body scarves billowing as they make […]


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Foxconn has enough capacity outside China to meet Apple’s U.S. demand

June 11, 2019

Via: Reuters

The comments come as U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to slap further tariffs on $300 billion worth of goods from China – where the bulk of Apple’s devices are assembled. The country is also a key market for the […]


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Apple cuts current-quarter production plan for new iPhones by 10 percent: Nikkei

January 9, 2019

Via: Reuters

That rare forecast cut exposed weakening iPhone demand in China, the world’s biggest smartphone market, where a slowing economy has also been buffeted by a trade war with the United States. Many analysts and consumers have said the new iPhones […]