As an important product line of Apple, the iPhone has contributed a lot of revenue to Apple over the years.
According to Apple's fourth quarter 2021 financial report, the iPhone's revenue reached $39.57 billion, accounting for half of Apple's revenue.
The iPhone 13 also became the best-selling phone in China in October.
Previously, due to the hot sales of the iPhone 13 series, Apple made a series of measures in order to cope with the lack of supply caused by the chip shortage.
First, the production of the iPad was cut, the supply of iPhones was prioritized, and the total production of the iPhone 13 was reduced by 10 million units.
Even so, under the influence of global supply chain shortages, Apple has not been able to stand alone.
Recently, according to the Nikkei Asia Review, due to the shortage of spare parts and the impact of electricity restrictions in some parts of China.
Apple's iPhone and iPad assembly suffered a brief period of suspension for several days in October, something that hadn't happened in more than a decade.
In fact, there are many reasons for this situation.
According to reports, the main reasons affecting iPhone and iPad production are some peripheral components, including Texas Instruments' power management chip, Nexperia's transceiver, and Broadcom's chip.
The shortage of these peripheral components has prevented Apple from completing production.
An executive at One of Apple's top suppliers once said that even if you have 99 percent of the product components on hand, it's impossible to start assembling the product if you're missing one or two.
It is enough to see the huge impact of component shortages on production.
The short-lived production due to chip shortages also led to a shortage of iPhone 13s, especially the iPhone 13 Pro.
Up to now, the iPhone 13 Pro has been released for more than two months, but according to the information on Apple's official website, it will take about 10-12 days to get the goods after placing an order.
However, this suspension is only temporary, and with the supply of these components solved, Apple has quickly resumed production.
At present, the supply situation of the iPhone 13 series has improved significantly compared with before.
While the iPhone is a bestseller, over-reliance on a single product is definitely not a good thing for Apple.
According to the news from the outside world, AR devices may be Apple's next important product that can reach tens of millions of sales.
According to Guo Mingxi's prediction, Apple's AR headset will integrate more technologies to bring a smarter human-computer interaction experience.
These include gesture control, object detection, eye tracking, iris recognition, voice control, skin detection, expression detection and spatial detection technology.
To support these technologies, Apple's first AR device will feature more 3D sensing modules than the iPhone.
Guo Mingxi believes that Apple's first AR device will be equipped with 4 sets of 3D sensors, which is twice the number of sensors equipped with the iPhone.
In addition, this AR device can also detect changes in the dynamic details of the hand, just like the Face ID of the iPhone.
By capturing the dynamic details of the hand, Apple's first AR headset will provide a more intuitive and vivid human-machine interface.
For example, when the user's hand is detected to change from clenching a fist to letting go, the balloon in the image will fly away.
In order to improve the range of gesture detection, Guo Mingxi predicts that Apple's AR headset will be equipped with 3 sets of ToF modules that can detect the movement trajectory of the hand at a lower latency.
Guo Mingxi said that the key to Apple's first AR device replacing the iPhone in the next 10 years lies in whether it can create a new human-computer interaction model.
The iPhone replaces the interaction method of the physical keyboard with multi-touch, and the AR device will also bring new human interaction methods such as gestures and eyeballs.
If this technology can be rapidly popularized in the next few years, the iPhone in hand may really be eliminated.
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