Apple warns of lower iPhone 14 shipments as COVID-19 curbs hobble production at plant in China


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Customers visit an Apple store in Taipei, Taiwan, on Nov. 7.ANN WANG/Reuters Apple Inc AAPL-Q expects lower shipments of premium iPhone 14 models than previously anticipated following a significant production cut at a virus-blighted plant in China, dampening its sales outlook for the busy year-end holiday season. Demand for high-end smartphones assembled at Foxconn’s Zhengzhou plant has helped Apple remain a bright spot in a technology sector battered by consumer spending cutbacks amid surging inflation and interest rates. But the Cupertino, California-based vendor has fallen victim to China’s zero-COVID-19 policy, which has seen global firms including Canada Goose Holdings Inc...