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Oliver Haslam

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Apple wants to replace 50 of its iphone factory workforce with robots - What They Never Told You

The iPhone 15 lineup at the Apple Store in Nanjing East, Shanghai, China.

As Apple gets ready to launch the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro, a new report has Apple keen to change the way that it produces its biggest seller moving forward.

According to that report, Apple has tasked its supply chain partners with reducing the number of people involved in building the iPhone. The aim, we're told, is to reduce the reliance on people following a troublesome few years that saw Foxconn's Chinese factories closed as a result of COVID-19 lockdowns and riots over pay.

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