Apple warned that COVID-19 lockdowns in China are “significantly” impacting its iPhone supply chain.
“COVID-19 restrictions have temporarily impacted the primary iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max assembly facility located in Zhengzhou, China,” the company said in a statement on Sunday. “The facility is currently operating at significantly reduced capacity.”
The factory makes Apple’s most expensive, high-end iPhone models.
But as the lives and livelihoods of Apple’s China-based assembly line employees are thrown into disarray by the zero-COVID policies of China’s ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Apple is feeling the impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 restrictions.
“We now expect lower iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max shipments than we previously anticipated and customers will experience longer wait times to receive their new products,” the company warned its consumers….