{"id":653615,"date":"2013-04-22T08:45:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T12:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=456159"},"modified":"2013-04-22T08:45:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T12:45:48","slug":"the-cost-of-iphone-quality-control-1-2b-in-faulty-phones-returned-by-apple-in-2013-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/653615","title":{"rendered":"The cost of iPhone quality control: $1.2B in faulty phones returned by Apple in 2013 alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/22\/apple-foxconn-iphone-returns-456159\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/bgr-iphone-5-z-4.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"$1.2B in faulty phones returned by Apple in 2013 alone\" title=\"iPhone\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Apple has made plenty of headlines over <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/17\/iphone-5s-ipad-mini-delays-jefferies-445475\/\">its reported supply chain woes<\/a> this year and now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2013\/04\/22\/apple_returns_iphones_to_foxconn\/\"><em>The Register<\/em> has translated<\/a> a new <a href=\"http:\/\/biz.cb.com.cn\/12716612\/20130420\/461727.html\">report from <em>China Business<\/em><\/a> claiming that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a> recently returned at least 5 million <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/iphone\">iPhones<\/a> to Foxconn this year due to some kind of unnamed defect. <em>The Register<\/em> notes that &#8220;with a cost to manufacture of $US200 apiece, Foxconn is apparently preparing to take a hit of up to $1.6bn to cover the cost of making replacement handsets,&#8221; which would certainly be a major blow to the world&#8217;s leading smartphone manufacturer. The report of the returned iPhones comes after <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/10\/foxconn-iphone-sales-decline-428220\/\">Foxconn earlier this month posted a 19% drop in year-over-year revenue<\/a>\u00a0that was attributable in large part to &#8220;disappointing&#8221; recent iPhone sales.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/xT_2sZLoIK8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has made plenty of headlines over its reported supply chain woes this year and now The Register has translated a new report from China Business claiming that Apple recently returned at least 5 million iPhones to Foxconn this year due to some kind of unnamed defect. The Register notes that &#8220;with a cost to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}