{"id":6025,"date":"2022-05-29T11:57:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T11:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/apple-to-keep-iphone-production-flat-in-2022"},"modified":"2022-05-29T12:23:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T12:23:33","slug":"apple-to-keep-iphone-production-flat-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/apple-to-keep-iphone-production-flat-in-2022","title":{"rendered":"Apple to keep iPhone production flat in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Sierra-Leone. <\/strong><\/span>Apple Inc plans to keep iPhone production for 2022 roughly flat at about 220 million units, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, as China\u2019s COVID-19 curbs, global supply chain issues, and cooling demand continue to hurt smartphone makers.<\/p>\n<p>An outbreak of COVID-19 in China has kept its financial hub Shanghai largely paralysed by a city-wide lockdown \u2014 now in its seventh week. Beijing, meanwhile, has ramped up its quarantine efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The iPhone maker\u2019s supplier Foxconn has been able to keep its workers on-site in a \u201cclosed-loop\u201d system to limit the impact on production, but lockdowns in the country have pushed many to sound demand-related warnings.<\/p>\n<p>Apple had also said last month any new lockdowns in China and Taiwan, where many parts and iPhones are produced, could bring new obstacles in terms of supply and demand in the current quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The developments also come as investors brace for a drop in consumer spending on tech gadgets and services as the war in Ukraine drives up the cost of oil, food, and other staples.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, Nikkei reported on Wednesday that the company had told its suppliers to speed up iPhone development after China\u2019s COVID-19 lockdowns hampered the schedule for at least one of the new phones.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\">Sierra-Leone<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Sierra-Leone. Apple Inc plans to keep iPhone production for 2022 roughly flat at about 220 million units, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, as China\u2019s COVID-19 curbs, global supply chain issues, and cooling demand continue to hurt smartphone makers. An outbreak of COVID-19 in China has kept its financial hub Shanghai largely paralysed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":6024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,9],"tags":[291,293,292],"class_list":["post-6025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-miscellaneous","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-sierra-leone","tag-sierra-leone"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Apple to keep iPhone production flat in 2022 - Sierra Leone<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Apple Inc plans to keep iPhone production for 2022 roughly flat at about 220 million units, Bloomberg News reported on T ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/apple-to-keep-iphone-production-flat-in-2022\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Apple to keep iPhone production flat in 2022\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Apple Inc plans to keep iPhone production for 2022 roughly flat at about 220 million units, Bloomberg News reported on T ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/apple-to-keep-iphone-production-flat-in-2022\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sierra Leone\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-05-29T11:57:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-05-29T12:23:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/sites\/16\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_24-629365b3017c7.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"942\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"612\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/apple-to-keep-iphone-production-flat-in-2022#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/apple-to-keep-iphone-production-flat-in-2022\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Apple to keep iPhone production flat in 2022\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-29T11:57:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-05-29T12:23:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/apple-to-keep-iphone-production-flat-in-2022\"},\"wordCount\":223,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/apple-to-keep-iphone-production-flat-in-2022#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/sites\/16\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_24-629365b3017c7.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Sierra-Leone\",\"Sierra-Leone\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"miscellaneous\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/apple-to-keep-iphone-production-flat-in-2022#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/apple-to-keep-iphone-production-flat-in-2022\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/apple-to-keep-iphone-production-flat-in-2022\",\"name\":\"Apple to keep iPhone production flat in 2022 - 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