Apple has been facing setbacks in the engineering test phase of its first foldable iPhone, which might lead to delays in its mass production and product shipment schedule, Nikkei Asia reported on Monday citing “multiple sources briefed on the matter.”
Lauly Li and Cheng Ting-Fang for Nikkei Asia:
A few component suppliers, though not all, have been notified that there is a possibility the component production schedule for the foldable iPhone will be pushed back, Nikkei Asia learned.
Apple and its suppliers are working to tackle these issues, as delays to its shipment schedule would risk the U.S. tech giant’s marketing strategy for the long-awaited folding phone.
“It’s true that more issues than expected have emerged during the early test production phase, and additional time will be needed to resolve them and make necessary adjustments… The current situation could put the mass production timeline at risk,” one of the people familiar with the matter said.
“April will mark a crucial stage of the engineering verification test, and this month till early May is extremely critical,” the person added.
MacDailyNews Take: Might lead to delays, or might not. Not the lack of concreteness in the “reporting” (read: fomenting) which is laden with “mights,” “coulds,” and “maybes” to comedic proportions. This crap will now be picked up, regurgitated, and amplified by other media outlets (whether they be complicit, apathetic, or gullible), likely driving down Apple stock price (exactly as intended).
It’s déjà vu all over again. When will the markets look at Nikkei’s history… and compare to actual results instead of panicking in knee-jerk fashion to whatever bullshit Nikkei throws out there? Smart investors learn from history to ignore the bullshit. – MacDailyNews, April 15, 2016
Don’t fall for normal operations twisted into “fake news” FUD planted ahead of earnings by fomenting shorts into complicit and/or gullible media outlets. Instead, use these cases of blatantly obvious FUD as nice entry points in order to profit long term. – MacDailyNews, January 5, 2023
We seen this movie so many times, we just thank the Nikkei rag for whatever buying opportunity it can generate, even though the [ruse] gets weaker and weaker each time they try to gin up “bad news” for Apple as even mom and pop retail stock buyers are wising up. – MacDailyNews, October 22, 2025
This report (as with many of Nikkei’s Apple-related reports) smacks of a plant designed to depress the price of AAPL. Plain and simple. And Nikkei seems to be the preferred place to do it. — MacDailyNews, December 30, 2016
Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to lose money in the stock market. History lesson below:
• Another January, another misleading iPhone supply cuts story from Nikkei – January 29, 2018
• Apple stock drops after Nikkei report of iPhone X production cut – January 29, 2018
• Reports of Apple cutting iPhone X orders make no sense – January 2, 2018
• Apple stock tumbles on one poorly-sourced report of low iPhone X demand – December 26, 2017
• Apple and suppliers shares drop on report of weak iPhone X demand – December 26, 2017
• Nikkei: Apple to decrease iPhone production 10% in first quarter of 2017 – December 30, 2016
• Nikkei proclaims ‘iPhone 7’ Dead On Arrival; bemoans Apple’s ‘lack of innovation’ – May 12, 2016
• Japan’s Nikkei, The Wall Street Journal blow it, get iPhone demand story all wrong – January 16, 2013
• Did Apple reduce 4-inch Retina display orders due to improving yields? – January 15, 2013
• Analysts: iPhone 5 demand ‘robust;’ ignore the non-news noise – January 15, 2013
• Apple iPhone suppliers decline on report orders cut by 50% – January 15, 2013
• Apple swoon erases $17 billion from stock market – January 14, 2013
• Apple iPhone 5 production cut signaling a new product release? – January 14, 2013
• Apple drops to 11-month low on old reports of component cuts – January 14, 2013
• The strange math of Apple’s alleged massive iPhone 5 component cuts – January 14, 2013
• UBS analysts: Apple iPhone component order reduction ‘old news’ – January 14, 2013
• Apple pulls down U.S. futures – January 14, 2013
• Apple shares drop below $500 after reported cuts in iPhone 5 parts orders – January 14, 2013
Profit from the fomenting, AAPL investors!
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Tim Cook, Steve’s worst mistake!
AAPL – $8.42 (3.32%) and falling.
A buying opportunity. I never, ever carry this long, but I am in for some now.
Yes because folding phones are stupid – any screen that folds will give out and will not be as durable as a glass screen.