Terry Gou, chairman of iPhone-assembler Foxconn Technology Group, said his company’s business will remain strong at least until January amid growing concern over cooling demand for Apple’s flagship product.
“Our business is very good up till at least January,” Gou said Saturday in an interview outside a polling station in Taipei, before voting in local elections. He didn’t elaborate on the outlook for the rest of 2019.
Bloomberg News reported Thursday that an internal Foxconn memo characterized 2019 to be a “very difficult and competitive” year. The Taipei-based company is the main assembler of iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max, and splits