Taipei — For the first time since 2011, Apple did not release a version of its flagship iPhone in September. That delay has had a huge ripple effect through its network of vendors, which makes parsing supply-chain data even more challenging than usual.
Since at least March, we knew that the next instalment of the iconic device would be pushed back due to Covid-19. The pandemic initially hit manufacturing lines in China, but continued to affect the rest of the global line-up of companies that contribute to the product, all the way back to the team that develops it in Cupertino...
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