8 iPhone Plus was manufactured using unauthorized components, according to an investigation by the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, suspending production at the factory where she discovered these irregularities in 2018. We are talking about a factory of the Wistron company, which assembles iPhone 8 Plus phones for those from Apple, and that factory is in Kunshanm, China, the discovery of those from Cupertino being extremely serious. and more importantly, it will be seen how it will please the customers who received the units.
iPhone 8 Plus production has been suspended for two weeks at the Wistron factory in China, after which the company stated that things will return to normal, and the problems will be corrected in the meantime. Those from Wistron would have used unauthorized components to make the iPhone 8 Plus water resistant, coming from a supplier that Apple has not certified, so it is possible that those units will be affected by contact with water during normal use.
iPhone 8 Plus – unauthorized components used in production
The iPhone 8 Plus led to a series of sanctions for some of the managers of the Wistron company, those in management hoping that Apple will get over this minor accident and not take their hundreds of millions of dollars worth of orders annually. Wistron produces only 20% of the total iPhone 8 Plus units sold by Apple, but it also produces various other iPhone and iPad models, but in this case it denied that it had produced iPhone 8 with unauthorized components.
"A report from Taiwan's Chinese-language Commercial Times claimed earlier in the day that Apple had ordered Wistron to stop production of the iPhone 8 plus at a plant in Kunshan, China for two weeks pending a probe into alleged use of water-proof components from a supplier not certified by the client. Wistron has penalized several mid- and high-level executives, hoping to regain Apple's trust, claimed the report."
This is the first incident of this kind that is known to the public, until now Apple has been able to check the iPhone units produced by partners quite well, or to keep possible similar problems away from the press. This case with the iPhone 8 Plus should also have some official information from the Apple company, but it remains to be seen if this will happen and if any customer will have the phone replaced with a unit without unauthorized components.
