Apple's iPhone 15 Pro max was disassembled and found dust on the lens. Some people immediately said that it was made in India. However, the pictures posted by these disassembly bloggers showed that it was made in China. Obviously, this is different from what some people expected. This result may be related to the tight assembly schedule of the iPhone.
Apple's iPhone 15 production and stocking period runs from June to the release. Production during this period is quite tight. Foxconn, which mainly provides OEM services for Apple in China, is rumored to have once again offered thousands of yuan in bonuses to attract workers to produce iPhones. , perhaps it is this method that caused the problem this time.
A major difference from other mobile phone production is that the iPhone has serious quarterly differences. The iPhone's sales in the fourth quarter of each year are about 40% to 60% higher than the other three quarters. Therefore, the foundry is often in the iPhone production period from June to October. peak production, while production in other months is significantly reduced.
In order to control costs, foundries recruit workers based on changes in production capacity, or quickly fire workers to reduce costs. In order to further reduce costs, they will even employ third parties to hire workers. In this way, the factory reduces the cost of recruiting workers. The difficulty and cost also make iPhone assembly prone to problems.
iPhone lens assembly is a high-tech assembly process. It is said that this part of the assembly needs to be carried out in a dust-free workshop. It cannot be ruled out that this part of the process also uses external workers or temporary workers. Some bloggers even joked that they might be summer vacation workers. The technical level of this group of workers is obviously difficult to compare with professional technical workers, which may cause mistakes in the dust-free processing, causing dust to enter the lens of the iPhone15 Pro max.
Compared with previous years, Apple has been more aggressive this year. For the first time, it has taken the initiative to manufacture iPhone 15 in India and China at the same time. However, Apple has made a distinction. India only manufactured part of the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 plus, while the high-end iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone15 Pro max are all produced in China.
In doing so, Apple obviously recognizes that manufacturing in China is ahead of manufacturing in India. Last year, it was reported that the yield rate of iPhone 14 was only 50% when it was manufactured in India. Moreover, India lacks an industrial chain. All iPhone accessories assembled in India come from China. This is the case. Of course, Apple is worried about handing over the more advanced and more profitable iPhone 15 Pro to be manufactured in India. If there is a problem, Apple will suffer huge losses.
Secondly, manufacturing in India lacks the capacity flexibility of manufacturing in China. Previously, Wistron and Foxconn's factories in India had stopped Indian workers due to overtime issues. However, as long as Chinese workers are given high incentives, there is no problem in starting operations 24 hours a day. , Not only Foxconn and other factories have proved this, but Musk's Tesla Shanghai factory also gave similar information. For Apple, which needs production capacity flexibility, it is obvious that manufacturing in India is far inferior to manufacturing in China.
The iPhone 15 Pro max lens dust problem this time also reminds Apple that it needs to pay more attention to the quality control issues in the production process. It should give real preferential treatment to important technical workers instead of allowing the foundry to act arbitrarily, otherwise it will only further damage Apple's reputation.
Previous iPhone production has had problems with the first batch of goods from time to time, but Chinese manufacturing can quickly improve it in the follow-up. This time there is a dust problem with the iPhone 15 Pro max. I believe that the foundry will soon make improvements and strengthen quality control. This It also shows that when buying mobile phones, it is better not to buy the first batch of goods, because the first batch of goods is always prone to problems.