Wednesday November 16, 2022 4:34 americium PST by Tim Hardwick
Apple earlier this period acknowledged that customers faced longer hold times for iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max models due to the fact that of reduced proviso concatenation capacity, but the delays look to person gotten worse.
On Apple's online store successful the United States, the devices' estimated shipping times are presently hovering astir the six-week mark, with deliveries for each iPhone 14 Pro models present lone disposable from December 27, already putting them retired of scope of galore would-be gift-buying customers earlier Christmas Day.
The delays corroborate expert expectations that Apple's iPhone 14 Pro models volition autumn abbreviated of earlier shipment estimates for the year, pursuing lockdowns astatine the main Foxconn mill successful China wherever the devices are assembled.
Foxconn is present expected to vessel 79 cardinal units successful the existent quarter, down from the erstwhile 85 cardinal handsets estimate, owed to the stringent COVID-19 restrictions imposed connected the mill successful Zhengzhou successful caller weeks, according to concern steadfast Morgan Stanley (via Bloomberg).
"The hold clip for 14 Pro/Pro Max has extended to 4 to 5 weeks arsenic of precocious versus 2 to 4 weeks a period ago, implying request stays healthy, adjacent with proviso gap," wrote the analysts successful a note.
Looking ahead, Morgan Stanley predicts higher-than-usual output successful the archetypal fewer months of 2023 to marque up for unfilled demand. Meanwhile, operations astatine the Zhengzhou installation person already resumed, with workers having been ferried to the works implicit the play arsenic Foxconn seeks to marque up for mislaid ground.
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