At first, everything indicated that Apple would have no problems with the production of the iPhone 13 despite the shortage of components. Now the popular media outlet Bloomberg indicates that in Cupertino they have been forced to slow down the production rate of these iPhones And of course this drop in production will affect the sales that were originally planned.
It was expected to reach 10 million iPhone 13 sold this year but the figure could be greatly reduced due to the shortage of semiconductors. When the production of these iPhone 13 models began, it was expected to produce about 90 million, now with the problems at Broadcom and Texas Instruments the figure will be lower.
This is noticeable in the delivery dates of your products
When we enter the Apple website we realize that when placing an order for a new iPhone 13 model or even the newly released Apple Watch Series 7, delivery dates go over a month in some cases. This was not the usual thing in Apple launches, although it is true that at the beginning of sales you can always see a lack of stock. In this case it is due to the problems with the components and a clear example is what we see in the automobile factories, which are suffering even much more than companies in the technology sector such as Apple.
At the beginning it was said from Bloomberg that Apple could even increase the production of these iPhone 20 by 13% compared to the iPhone 12 released the previous year. Now it seems that the data does not exactly indicate an increase in production, Rather the complete opposite. We'll see how that affects device sales in the short and long term.
