Apple has been forced to interrupt the production of his phones for the first time in the last 10 years "for several days", according to Nikkei, who cites "multiple sources with this situation".
The main reason is the acute lack of components through which the entire Tech industry passes, which has affected the assembly lines of all companies, regardless of the products they sell: phones, tablets, game consoles, graphic cards, etc..To this is added a new policy imposed by China, which limits the amount of energy that companies can use in different regions.
Nikkei explains that this week had to normally be the one where the production of the company based in Cupertino should have reached maximum levels in order to respond to the holiday season, but it seems that the factories have received, instead of overtime, more free time.
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A manager of the assembly line says that "because of the limited number of chips and components, it did not make sense to work over the holiday program and to give more money to the workers..That hasn't happened before.The period of holidays in China was always the busiest, in which everyone increased production ”.
Apple has already lowered his expectations on this year's production in October.Even last month, the company decided to give up the iPad deliveries to maintain its iPhone 13 production at a high level, but this still could not avoid its stopping.The initial target of Americans was reaching 95 million iPhone 13 models in 2021, but this number fell to 83-85 million in early December.
Production for September and October was 20% lower than initial expectations, according to Nikkei.The production of iPads reached only 50% of the expected volume in the same period, and the production of older iPhone models reached 75% of the number envicified by the company.