Early this morning, Apple officially unveiled the iPhone 17 series, capturing the widespread attention of enterprises within the 'Apple supply chain'. There were news reports alleging that Apple is compelling its supply chain partners to adopt robot automation, threatening to withhold new contracts from those who refuse to comply. In response to these claims, reporters contacted three prominent domestic Apple contract manufacturing companies for confirmation. All three firms stated that they had not received any such directive. An insider from one of the leading contract manufacturers disclosed that while top-tier companies have indeed made significant strides in automation, the industry as a whole remains labor-intensive. Automation is currently feasible only for certain well-established manufacturing processes, and some production stages still necessitate manual intervention.