shortage

Hey y'all.. so a friend is traveling to Miami in two weeks, and I was hoping she could buy me the new iPhone 13 Pro in 256 GB since my iphone 7 is about to die. But I'm afraid that she will return with empty hands since the stock availability has been affected a lot recently. Is that shortage...

Perhaps you missed it - Apple bumped up prices for iPad due to shortages in flash memory. This is presumably due to lack or rare earth materials for production of NAND memory chips. Eventually, this would have happened sooner or later as the more people buy iPhones and smartphones with flash...