“If you’ve been waiting impatiently for your Apple Watch to arrive, there may be some good news today,” Ben Lovejoy reports for 9to5Mac. “Quanta vice chairman CC Leung reportedly said that while the company had struggled to meet orders to date, the company’s capacity problems have been solved and production is now fully up to speed.”
Because of labor shortages during the Lunar New Year holidays, Quanta was forced to borrow manpower from other manufacturers and was only able to deliver limited shipments in the first quarter. However, Quanta already has sufficient capacity to manufacture all the orders and should see a giant contribution from its wearable device business in the second quarter. — Quanta vice chairman CC Leung
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MacDailyNews Take: Hopefully this means Apple will be fulfilling orders and Apple Retail Stores will have Apple Watches in stock for sale onsite sooner than expected.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Bill” for the heads up.]