Apple's contracted iPhone manufacturers are ready to face off with the chipmaker and perhaps rake up to $27 billion in damages if arguments go their way.
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Apple is scrambling to update iPhones in China to avoid utilizing Qualcomm patents, but wants to fight off settlement and avoid "unrecoverable losses."
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Components suppliers are reporting better sales for the month of July this year than they had last year, partly thanks to renewed iPhone 8 hype.
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A unique, e-ink keyboard for Macs may not appear in color anytime soon while we may never get to see smart glasses from Apple...
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President of Sharp and senior Foxconn executive Tai Jeng-wu mentioned to students at his alma mater recently that he would be interested in building factories in the US if it meant keeping Apple happy.
Fast forward past the most surprising election of Donald Trump to the nation’s presidency. The looming specter of his trade policy — with a potential tariffs war with China and his desire to see Apple “build its damn computers” at home — may have convinced Infinite Loop to bite.
If what the Nikkei Asian Review is reporting from its sources is true, then we may have come to a point where the price for manufacturing the iPhone in the US has become right for all parties involved. But Apple’s request to its two major Taiwanese contractors that assemble the iPhone, Foxconn and Pegatron, to consider and blueprint a move to the US was reportedly made back in June.
“Foxconn complied, while Pegatron declined to formulate such a plan due to cost concerns,” one source claimed.
Apple’s biggest semiconductor partner, TSMC, is also said to be considering US plans.
Lax labor regulations in China have meant that many industrial companies have set up in the mainland in order to employ thousands while keeping costs down. The iPhone 7 is purported to have a $225 bill of materials.
Of concern with the move is the slack period required to build up the infrastructure needed before iPhone manufacturing operations can begin in the US and whether a President Trump will swing for a campaign promise of putting an all-imports tariff on China of 45 percent.
Apple CEO Tim Cook also mentioned in a CBS News 60 Minutes interview that the US does not have enough skilled nor interested workers for the company to tap into for tedious, on-your-feet assembly line jobs these days. With other US labor, economic and land development regulations in place, the cost to make an iPhone could, at the very least, double in the short term.
Whether the “Made in China” ink stays or goes, all of this could mean that the $649 iPhone may be no more — shipping components, parts and finished products back and forth across the Pacific may prove too heavy a burden for Apple to maintain its current base price level. The knock-on effect when exporting the iPhone to other countries could further dampen demand for what can arguably be considered the world’s most in-demand single smartphone. And here we are, worried about how the iPhone 8 might look like.
The colloquial Big Mac price index may soon be replaced with the iPhone price index and it may be the one gauge the political impact on global consumer spending.
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Apple’s supply chain for the iPhone and other devices has been suffering as sales have slid over the past year. Worse yet, as Apple continues to demand lower prices for more labor and more products, we see companies trying to push back on the giant.It’s still not enough for the people toiling at the factories, though, according to advocacy group China Labor Watch.CLW ...
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When factories make their moves all at once, you know that Apple has to be doing something funky.In this case, a tipster has forwarded a rumor clip to Mobipicker that details a change in strategy for Apple by not just releasing an iPhone 7 and an iPhone 7 Plus, but a third model — either called the iPhone 7 Pro or iPhone 7 Premium.We saw schematics leaked out for a supposed ...
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When Apple has a bad quarter, it has a bed of big numbers to fall back on. When the company’s parts suppliers have a bad quarter, they don’t necessarily have much of a backup to rely on.Nikkei Asian Review has tracked drops in earnings at fifteen Taiwanese tech firms, most of them component suppliers serving Apple. Comparing first quarter performances year-over-year, the ...
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Rumors are still on a rise when it comes to the launch of a next-generation iPhone 6 this June at WWDC. We’ve heard continuous rumors that the company may launch as many as two iPhones this summer, and we’ve even seen leaks that point to its design. Obviously the last piece left in the puzzle is for Apple to actually start manufacturing the iPhone 6 a couple of months early in order to meet demand, and that may also be ready. Commercial Times is reporting that Pegatron is ready to begin production of the iPhone 6 in its new Kunshan, China plant. Pegatron was the partner ...
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