{"id":119992,"date":"2020-10-29T15:20:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T15:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/20\/10\/29\/lower-air-quality-in-china-may-mean-a-surge-in-iphone-12-production"},"modified":"2020-10-29T15:20:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T15:20:53","slug":"lower-air-quality-in-china-may-mean-a-surge-in-iphone-12-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/29\/lower-air-quality-in-china-may-mean-a-surge-in-iphone-12-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower air quality in China may mean a surge in iPhone 12 production"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/lower-air-quality-in-china-may-mean-a-surge-in-iphone-12-production.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Analysts tracking the air quality in China believe that a recent drop may point to a surge in industrial activity related to <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/iphone-12\">iPhone 12<\/a> production.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>The production of iPhones has historically led to a reduction in air quality in four key Chinese cities: Zhengzhou, <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/15\/03\/19\/inside-greater-china-an-exclusive-look-at-apple-inc-in-shenzhen\">Shenzhen<\/a>, Chengdu, and Chongqing. By tracking the air quality in these cities, analysts can gauge Apple&#8217;s production cycles.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>&#8220;As of October 26th, air quality data from Zhengzhou, also known as &#8216;iPhone City,&#8217; shows that industrial production levels have spiked higher recently, about a month later than historical seasonality, which we believe coincides with the ramp in iPhone 12 mass production,&#8221; Morgan Stanley analysts Katy Huberty wrote in a note <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/10\/28\/lower-air-quality-in-china-points-to-iphone-12-production-surge.html\">seen by <em>CNBC.<\/em><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>Apple typically announces its new iPhones in September, though it&#8217;s likely the <a href=\"http:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/coronavirus\">coronavirus<\/a> had slowed down the 2020 production cycle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts tracking the air quality in China believe that a recent drop may point to a surge in industrial activity related to iPhone 12 production. The production of iPhones has historically led to a reduction in air quality in four key Chinese cities: Zhengzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, and Chongqing. By tracking the air quality in these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-insider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}