Apple (AAPL.US) Faces "Double Headwinds"! China iPhone Sales Drop 19% in One Month, Storage Price Surge Forces Mac and iPad Price Increases

This data can be said to add insult to injury for Apple, which has recently been facing intense pressure from soaring prices and shortages of storage chips. On Thursday, Apple raised the prices of most of its consumer electronic products (excluding the iPhone product line), attributing these changes to unprecedented strong demand caused by large-scale purchases of memory, solid-state drives, and other storage chip components by artificial intelligence data centers.