Apple suppliers suffer with uncertainty around iPhone demand

Lower-than-expected demand for Apple Inc.’s new iPhones and the company’s decision to offer more models have created turmoil along its supply chain and made it harder to predict the number of components and phones it needs, Businesstelegraph.co.uk reports, citing sources familiar with the situation=.

In recent weeks, Apple slashed production orders for all three of the iPhone models that it unveiled in September, these sources said, frustrating executives at Apple suppliers as well as workers who assemble the handsets and their components.