Due to the worldwide chip scarcity, it has affected the provision of assorted merchandise. This contains corporations akin to Apple who’re at present struggling to satisfy the demand for the iPhone 13. However, plainly the corporate might need found out a technique to alleviate a few of its element shortages.

According to a report from Nikkei Asia, plainly Apple is seemingly utilizing parts from its iPads for the iPhone 13. It has been reported that each gadgets truly do share some frequent core and peripheral parts, which signifies that Apple can use sure components interchangeably.

In truth, the report claims that because of this, manufacturing of the iPad has been down 50% from Apple’s unique plans for the previous two months, the place plainly the corporate is “saving” the parts to be used within the iPhone 13. Apple apparently foresees a stronger demand for the iPhone 13 which is why they’re making this resolution.

This can also be apparently not Apple’s first time “sacrificing” iPads for the iPhone. The final time they did it was final 12 months for the iPhone 12 throughout the pandemic, and assuming this report is correct, it appears to be like like they’re repeating final 12 months’s practices once more.

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