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Find out more and add your support at patreon dot com slash MacOS can. How will the next round of

iPhones do? About the same as the current crop seems to be Apple's thinking.

Bloomberg has secret people said to know something about something saying

that the Kubertino company is asking suppliers to supply roughly 220 million iPhones, believed

to be about the same as the current round of production.

Some might hear that and think not bad as Bloomberg points out the worst inflation

in decades a war in Ukraine and supply chain turmoil all threatened away on sales this year.

Adding color, the report had Strategy Analytics senior director Linda Sui saying last month,

this year will be a tale of two halves, geopolitical issues, component

shortages, price inflation, exchange rate volatility, and COVID disruption will continue to weigh on the smartphone market during the first half of

2022 before the situation eases in the second half.

If any company, even Apple, can come through a year like that without a drop-in

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