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Apple isn’t planning to offer

handsets compatible with

next-generation 5G networks

this year.

Apple said last month its

iPhone sales dropped 9.2% in

the three months ended Sept.

28. The company’s overall
    revenue rose 1.8%, as sales of
    wearable products such as
    smartwatches and services in-
    cluding apps, streaming-mu-
    sic subscriptions and mobile
    payments offset a decline in
    iPhone revenue.
    However, Apple’s produc-
    tion forecast for the new
    iPhone 11 has been solid, ac-
    cording to people familiar
    with the matter. Apple priced
    the handset—the least expen-
    sive of three models the com-
    pany launched in Septem-
    ber—at $699.
    Apple is also preparing to
    introduce a cheaper iPhone in
    the spring of 2020 with a liq-
    uid-crystal display and a
    home button, people familiar
    with the matter said.
    In the fall of 2020, it is
    planning to roll out 5G hand-
    sets, said people familiar with

ning Dec. 15.

Other products including

the Apple Watch have been

subject to a 15% tariff since

an earlier round of tariff

hikes on Sept. 1.

Tariffs continue to be a

major stumbling block in con-

tinuing efforts by the U.S. and

China to reach a “phase one”

Foxconn Technology
Group’s profit rose 23% in the
third quarter, even as its big-
gest customer, Apple Inc.,
faced declining iPhone sales.
Foxconn, the world’s larg-
est contract electronics
maker, reported a profit of
30.66 billion New Taiwan dol-
lars (US$1 billion), topping
the NT$29.31 billion average
estimate of analysts polled by
FactSet.
Revenue for the Taiwan-
based company rose 0.9%
from last year’s third quarter
to NT$1.39 trillion. Foxconn,
known formally as Hon Hai
Precision Industry Co., as-
sembles iPhones, mostly in
China, and relies on Apple for
about half of its revenue, ac-
cording to analyst estimates.
Apple’s iPhone sales have
been slowing as customers
hold on to smartphones lon-
ger and as competition in-
creases from Chinese produc-
ers offering lower-price
feature-rich handsets.
Unlike some of its rivals,

BYYOKOKUBOTA

Apple’s plans.

Apple didn’t respond to a

request for comment.

Dow Jones & Co., publisher

of The Wall Street Journal,

has a commercial agreement

to supply news through Apple

services.

The trade war between

Washington and Beijing has

prompted Apple and Foxconn

to consider shifting some pro-

duction out of China, though

most of Apple’s bedrock prod-

ucts, including the iPhone,

continue to be assembled in

the country.

Made-in-China iPhones im-

ported to the U.S. are set to

be hit with a 15% tariff begin-

trade deal. Last week, Beijing

said the U.S. and China had

both agreed to roll back their

tit-for-tat tariffs as part of a

limited deal. However, that

statement was later contra-

dicted by the Trump adminis-

tration.

—Takashi Mochizuki

contributed to this article.

The company, which gets half its revenue from Apple, has mulled shifting some production out of China amid a trade war. A plant in India.

KAREN DIAS/BLOOMBERG NEWS

Foxconn Overcomes

Slow iPhone Sales

To Post Profit Jump

Facebook Inc. reported
gains in detecting hate speech,
child-abuse imagery and ter-
rorist propaganda on its plat-
forms, arguing that its willing-
ness to publish statistics on the
removal of objectionable con-
tent shows its commitment to
transparency.
“The systems we’ve built for
addressing these issues are
more advanced than what any
other company has,” Chief Ex-
ecutive Mark Zuckerberg said
Wednesday, adding that other
internet companies have

avoided making similar disclo-

sures because “they don’t want

to admit they have a problem

too.”

The Facebook co-founder

was unusually blunt in his crit-

icism of other internet and so-

cial-media platforms on a call

with reporters, but he didn’t

specifically name any competi-

tors or say where their detec-

tion efforts and disclosure fall

short.

Facebook, Alphabet Inc.’s

Google and Twitter Inc. are

among large social-media com-

panies that release reports

aimed at giving the public a

window into their businesses.

These firms have responded to

complaints about illegal and of-

fensive content on their plat-

forms by providing metrics to

judge their progress in remov-

ing it, sometimes before it gets

flagged by users.

Facebook’s enforcement re-

port shows the volume of prob-

lematic content it hosts re-

mains staggering, with more

than 12 million pieces of child

nudity or sexual-abuse content

alone being removed from the

main Facebook platform and

Instagram during the Septem-

ber quarter. But the company

said the actual frequency with

which such material is viewed

is so small that it can’t be reli-

ably measured, with such posts

accounting for less than 0.04%

of what users actually saw.

The report marked the first

time the company reported

content-enforcement statistics

for Instagram, which is signifi-

cantly less successful than the

Facebook platform at detecting

terrorist propaganda, child ex-

ploitation and self-harm con-

tent before users report it.

On Facebook, all but 3% of

suicide and self-harm content

is removed from the platform

without reports from users, the

company said.

Instagram users are still re-

sponsible for flagging 21% of

similar content that is eventu-

ally removed.

Vishal Shah, Instagram’s

head of product, said the dis-

parity partially reflects Face-

book having more mature arti-

ficial intelligence systems.

Facebook also touted its

progress this year in removing

posts that violate its policy

barring illicit firearm and drug

sales. It said about 6.7 million

pieces of such content was re-

moved from Facebook in the

most recent quarter, up from

nearly 1.5 million in the first

quarter.

Attorney General William

Barr has criticized Facebook’s

plan to roll out encrypted mes-

saging across its services, a

step that would make it harder

for either the company or law

enforcement to monitor for il-

legal activities.

Mr. Zuckerberg acknowl-

edged “real tension” between

encryption and safety. At the

same time, he said Facebook

should be credited for helping

make society safer by policing

the company’s platforms.

BYJEFFHORWITZ

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