Apple has been facing disruption in its iPhone production site in China. Now, a new report has revealed that this has led to the company seeing a production shortfall for some of its iPhone Pro units this year.
For those unaware, the iPhone production site in China is situated in Zhengzhou and was the largest iPhone manufacturing factory in the world and was run by Foxconn. Recently, we had reported on various issues faced by this hub, including local COVID-19 lockdown and even a violent riot. Now, according to a Bloomberg report, it seems that the situation in the iPhone plant has yet to be completely ironed out, which will likely lead to lost production and fall in unit production estimation.
So the improvement of this situation will also depend on the Taiwanese supplier getting its assembly line back on track and bringing people back for production following the violent protest. However, if the lockdown caused by COVID persists, then we can expect the production impacts to be even more severe. As of right now, the report claims that the company is seeing around a 6 million unit shortfall for its iPhone 14 Pro series models alone.
To recall, Foxconn’s largest factory faced those violent riots following the new hiring after the COVID-19 lockdown. This lockdown led to stricter restrictions on the site and tighter work regulations. Thus, some workers began protesting since they claimed that they had no knowledge of such restrictions during the hiring process, with the process soon turning violent.
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