Foxconn’s flagship iPhone plant in China is set to see a further reduction in shipments after thousands of employees quit.
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More than 20 000 employees at Apple supplier Foxconn’s huge Chinese plant have left, a source said on Friday.
Zhengzhou, home to Apple’s largest iPhone factory, will be largely locked down for five days.
Hundreds of workers at Apple’s main iPhone-making plant in China clashed with security personnel over tough Covid restrictions.
Apple is preparing to begin sourcing chips for its devices from a plant under construction in Arizona.
Apple has limited the AirDrop wireless file-sharing feature on iPhones in China after it was used in protests against the communist regime.
Apple’s status as a relative haven is under threat amid growing concern that iPhone sales are weakening.
Apple expects to produce at least three million fewer iPhone 14 handsets than originally anticipated this year, sources said.
A significant iPhone production cut at a virus-blighted plant in China has dampened Apple’s sales outlook for the year-end holiday season.
Apple’s Taiwanese contract manufacturer Pegatron has begun assembling the company’s latest iPhone 14 model in India.