If you are used to reading our articles, you will know that the chances of hearing Tim Cook present his new phones at the Steve Jobs Theater on March 31 are increasingly minimal. The fault of the famouscoronaviruswhich already affects more than 100,000 patients around the planet.
Additional fears, emanating from a discussion between Elliot Lan (general manager of supply chain ofFoxconnin Asia) and Wamsi Mohan, executive of the Bank of America, thus confirm these initial doubts. According to them, the affordable iPhone scheduled for the end of the month and the 5G versions in September would therefore be late.
Several weeks of delay?
For the moment, no postponement date seems to have been decided. As for theiPhone 9, however, it could easily wait until April or later and be revealed onlineat the same time as the public update to iOS 13.4. The health authorities would only be more reassured.
Regarding the trio of high-end models, however, given that it is already expected to be made official at the end of the year, the room for maneuver remains low in2020. Moreover,the out of stock experienced by previous devices at the momentis not an encouraging sign either.
It is nevertheless important to nuance:Applecontinues to want to reassure its shareholders with positive figures, and other researchers studying the mobile market have predicted that the consequences of COVID-19 should not be so serious for the firm after all. Who will have the final word on the story?
