Now that the coronavirus is wreaking havoc in Europe, especially in Italy and Spain, in China the news related to this disease is increasingly more encouraging, with an increasingly smaller number of infected and deceased in recent weeks, which has made it possible for the country to recover normalcy little by little.
Last week, Apple opened the doors of 38 of the 42 stores that it has in China, some of them with reduced hours from 11 in the morning to 6 in the afternoon. From today, each and every Apple Store that Apple has in China have reopened their doors recovering normality prior to the coronavirus.
Since this past Wednesday, the 38 stores that were open had returned to normal hours, a regular schedule that is also present in the 4 Apple Stores that were closed. This week, due to Italian government restrictions, Apple has closed the 17 Apple Stores it has in Italy. In the United States, Apple has suspended all Today at Apple sessions in the United States and Canada.
The economy pending the coronavirus
IPhone sales figures have dropped in February by 60%, according to official shipping figures released a few days ago by the Chinese government, a downturn that will undoubtedly seriously affect Apple's financial results for the first quarter of 2020.
In early February, Apple announced a revision of revenue forecasts for the first quarter of 2020Figures that, seeing how the coronavirus panorama has evolved, will probably be very far from those that the Cupertino-based company reviewed.
At the moment, we do not have any news related to the possible cancellation of WWDC, an event scheduled for the first days of June and that if the evolution of the coronavirus continues, it will probably be suspended or delayed. The new iPhone models probably also delay not only their official presentation, but also their arrival on the market for the same reason.
