Between the end of January and the beginning of February, Apple decided close all the stores the company has spread across Asia. Since February 13, Apple has been slowly opening up some of the Apple Store, and today there are 29 stores opening in the Asian sector.
All Apple stores in China that have reopened, do it in reduced hours from 11/12 am to 6 pm. From Apple they are urging users who plan to visit one of the Apple stores that has opened its doors go with the mask and let the staff check their body temperature.
Last week, Apple announced that He was forced to change income statistics planned for the first quarter of 2020, due to problems experienced by the coronavirus in both production chains, such as factories and the Apple Store were forced to close.
The factories outside Hubei province, the historic center of the virus, re-open their institutions, but the lack of supply is delayed so that the production value is the same as before the spread of the virus.
As they say from Bloomberg, IPhone sales prices started to drop in January, when coronavirus news was happening daily. According to UBS Research, sales figures for iPhone in January, only in China, dropped 28 percent compared to December 2019, and in February it is estimated that sales will drop significantly.
The lack of raw materials for the unique products Apple provides us has forced the Cupertino-based company to move part of its production to Taiwan.