0:00 – Introduction
0:29 – Support Jon Prosser
1:50 – FoxConn Looks to Mexico for iPhone Factory
2:56 – Floating Apple Store to Open in Singapore Marina Bay Sands
03:33 – iPhone 12 to get Smaller Batteries to offset 5G Chip Cost
Ode to Jon Prosser.
The shirt i”m wearing in this edition is the FPT 404, because Apple Leaker Jon Prosser’s channel got hacked recently and so they released these to help keep the lights on. If you care about Apple leaks and news (and if you don’t, I’m not sure why you’re here), head over to https://www.youtube.com/user/FrontPageTech and subscribe, and maybe pick up one of their shirts too. Join the #Toiletsquad like me.
Foxconn & Pegatron looking to Mexico for new iPhone factories
Foxconn, one of Apple’s largest iPhone assembly partners is reportedly looking to Mexico for its next factory. This news comes against a backdrop of increasing trade tensions between the US Government and China, where Trump’s Tariffs have been making Chinese made good more expensive for Americans for some years.
Apple has also recently begun diversifying manufacturing to the US, Vietnam and India, potentially to reduce bottlenecks and export fees in its supply chain.
Floating Apple Store Opens in Singapore
Apple Marina Bay Sands is possibly the most insane looking Apple Store to date, and this is in a world of enormous glass cubes, Indoor town squares and Genius Bars.
“We will soon open the doors to our new store by the Bay.
Apple Marina Bay Sands will be at the heart of creativity, a place we’ve made for you to capture your ideas and passions. It will be a space for you to explore, connect and create something new.
We can’t wait to see where your imagination takes you.”
Smaller iPhone 12 Batteries offset cost of 5G chips
iPhone 12 has long been rumoured to include 5G tech, and millimetre wave 5G in the pro models, but those chips don’t come cheap. In order to maintain their price points, it’s been suggested that Apple plans to use cheaper, more simple batteries in their new phones with a capacity hit around 10%.
That doesn’t mean the phones won’t last as long though, as typically the A series chips improve efficiency about 30% year on year for the same performance. Of course, we’ll be expecting better performance too, but I would be incredibly surprised if Apple releases a phone with shorter battery life. They’ll have the balance of time vs performance pretty spot on as usual!
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