"It's difficult to make up for lost time. Apple and its suppliers are working around the clock to accelerate development," a Nikkei official was cited as saying.
To be more explicit, the iPhone manufacturing delay is claimed to be due to an engineering verification test (EVT). This is the stage in the process where the supplier finalises all of the parts and processes required to start production.
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Every year, Apple releases the iPhone in late September. To reach this deadline, the EVT stage should be finished by the end of June. According to the source, one of the models has slipped three weeks behind schedule. While this may not seem significant at the time, if circumstances do not improve, we may see one iPhone 14 model arrive slightly late.
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