the ROME – The epidemic of coronavirus in China creates an earthquake in many economic sectors. Has resulted in Apple to correct downward the forecast of revenues for the first three months of this year. And may create problems not only in the production of the iPhone, but also to two new products expected soon: the iPad Pro version 2020 and the earphones AirPods Pro Lite. This is what wrote on the website of the asian Digitimes, which cites sources within the industry. Apple, however, should not postpone the launch plan of iPhone cheap, which are circulating rumors for months. According to reports the German website iPhone-ticker, referring to internal sources at the company of Cupertino, the presentation of the new iphone will be held on the 31st of march.
According to Digitimes, Apple had plans to start manufacturing the AirPods Pro Lite – a version that is more affordable a headset AirPods Pro presented last fall – during the second quarter, but the plane will undergo slipping forward. Similarly, it is likely a delay in the launch was expected in march – the new iPad Pro. In spite of this, at the end of march Apple should hold an event for the presentation of the smartphone statement: called iPhone SE2 or iPhone 9, is expected to cost $ 400. Always according to the sources, German, sales of the new iphone could begin as early as the 3rd of April.
In the meantime, the plant Foxconn in Zhengzhou in china’s Henan province, began to assemble iphones for Apple, but not at full capacity, says the Financial Times, according to which in the huge industrial complex, it is difficult to return to full production after the long holiday for the lunar new year, because of the restrictions to which are subjected the workers returning from their city of origin. Foxconn assembles many of the most recent Apple iPhone in a huge industrial complex in Zhengzhou and are approximately 200,000 workers who are to its assembly lines. Among the staff of the factory there are many workers returning from the long holiday of the lunar new year, which the authorities of Zhengzhou require a quarantine from 7 to 14 days, for fear that during the holidays they contracted the coronavirus. “In response to the government requirements of the control of epidemics,” explains the company – to give priority to the prevention and return to the safety of the work, and at the same time improve the quality of our services for the reception of the workers”, workers who are not natives of Zhengzhou have had to temporarily stop work and submit to the quarantine. The local authorities are in fact concerned that the large influx of workers returning to the region may encourage the spread of the virus. The company, explain local officials of the Henan to the Ft, then had to “take stringent measures to prevent the spread of the virus,” appointing commissions local health authorities to “intensify the supervision of the control measures of the virus in the workplace”. Among the policies adopted by the municipal authorities, there is also a period of quarantine required for workers who return. And this is creating problems in the factory in Zhengzhou, which is hard to muster all his strength to work.
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