Published: August 20th, 2021,
Last updated: August 20th, 2021
The number 13 is not to blame should Apple not be able to ship its new iPhone 13 model to customers on time next month. The reason lies in the labor shortage at Foxconn’s factories in China. The Taiwan-based company is Apple’s largest contract manufacturer. Migrant workers at Foxconn assemble 80 percent of Apple’s iPhones. But because the major industrial centers are less and less attractive to workers, they are now being lured with higher salaries and extra payments. Beijing also wants to better handle migration to the country in the future, as Frank Sieren analyses.