Apple Shifts Ipad Production Out Of China For First Time Even though the Shanghai government announced plans to lift COVID restrictions on Wednesday and reopen the city after two months of lockdowns, Apple has decided to diversify some of its product supply chains out of China. Nikkia Asia reports that some iPad production will be moved out of Shanghai and surrounding areas to Vietnam for the first time to safeguard against any future supply chain disruptions caused by Beijing's strict COVID restrictions. Apple was already planning future iPad production lines in Vietnam. One of the top iPad assemblers, China's BYD,...