Apple Plan to Move Some iPhone Production Out of China 

By  H.JanGra

www.lifeactive.in

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Apple, in recent weeks, is accelerating its plans to shift some of its iPhone production outside China and telling suppliers to plan more for assembling the product elsewhere in Asia 

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According to the Wall Street Journal, the people involved in the discussions said that Apple is also looking to reduce the dependence on Taiwanese assemblers led by the Foxconn Technology Group.

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In China, Zhengzhou has as many as 300,000 workers working at a factory run by Foxconn to make iPhone units and other Apple products 

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In late November, protests erupted at the world's largest iPhone factory in central China as authorities at the Foxconn plant struggled to contain a COVID-19 outbreak 

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In videos protested online, the protesters were shouting "Stand up for your rights!" Riot police were present 

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Apple has told its manufacturing partners that it wants them to start trying to do more of this work outside of China 

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The slowing global economy and slowing hiring at Apple have made it hard for the tech giant to allocate personnel for NPI work with new suppliers and new countries 

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Earlier in November, problems at the Foxconn plant led Apple to cut estimates for high-end iPhone 14 shipments and issue a rare warning to investors over the delays.

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China is further scrambling Apple's strained supply and highlighting how the country's stringent zero-Covid policy is hurting global technology firms.

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