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beowulfschmidt said:

Gods forbid they maintain thickness and increase battery capacity instead...

Wouldn't thinning the display allow them to keep overall device thickness the same with a thicker battery?

I kind of doubt that Apple HQ is where they keep their stock of online products and they are shipped from there. If the purchase is shipped from the nearest Apple Store or Apple warehouse that have it in stock, then the sale tax should be base on the location of that Apple Store or warehouse and credited to those local districts. 

The last 2 iphones I've purchased from apple.com have shipped to me direct from China.

JP234 said:

Apple opening another facility in Texas. Is this another step in moving company HQ to Texas to avoid California taxes? It's smart business, even though Texas culture is the exact opposite of Apple culture.

Not after spending 5 Billion dollars to build the current HQ.

TheObannonFile said:

Is this reduced overall production due to various shortages in the industry, or is this really high demand? Or did Apple simply not realize this and have too many 14 and 14 Plus and not enough Pro?

Per other articles on this site, the main iPhone factory in China is operating at only 2/3s capacity due to government-mandated Covid lockdowns and mass employee walk-outs.  Conditions there are very poor at the moment.

Perfect example of Tim Cook’s “you cannot draw a conclusion from a single data point” comment.  In the absence of knowing how many phones are being produced compared to last year these numbers are meaningless.  Demand could be much greater than last year but you wouldn’t know it if Apple built 10 Million more phones.   Likewise, demand could be less but you wouldn’t know it because Apple built 10 million fewer phones (unlikely).