Apple experienced $6 billion in supply constraints in Q4 2021What you need to know
Apple held its Q4 2021 earnings call today.
The company revealed it experienced $6 billion in supply constraints during the quarter.
The constraints impacted the Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
Even Apple can't escape supply constraints.
Earlier today, Apple hosted its Q4 2021 earnings call. During the call, Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed that it, along with virtually every company in the world, has been unable to avoid supply constraints.
In response to a question from Shannon Cross from Cross Research, Cook revealed that the company experienced $6 billion in supply constraints in the fourth quarter of 2021. According to Cook, the constraints affected the production of the iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
If you look at Q4 for a moment, we had about $6 billion in supply constraints, and it affected the iPhone, the iPad and the Mac. We had — there were two causes of them for Q4. One was the chip shortages that you've heard a lot about from many different companies through...
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Apple experienced $6 billion in supply constraints in Q4 2021
