The coronavirus it has taken the lives of almost 2.000 people and the Mobile World Congress 2020, the largest mobile phone fair that is held every year in Barcelona and from which this year the main manufacturers such as LG, Ericsson, Sony, Nokia, Vivo ... due to the risk of contagion from this virus.
Many are the companies that are seeing how your sales figures are suffering, not only technological, but of any sector, since many are the Chinese factories that have completely paralyzed their production due to the coronavirus, since if there is no production, there are no parts, if there are no parts, devices, cars cannot be assembled , computers ...
Apple, to go healing in health, has published a updating your financial forecasts for the first quarter of 2020, the quarter that ends on March 31, and where we can see how the Cupertino-based company claims that it will not meet revenue forecasts due to the impact of the COVID-19 coronavirus in China.
In the statement, Apple states that the work rhythm is recovering after the extension of the Chimo New Year celebration, but they are experiencing a slower resumption than they had anticipated. As a result of this, they do not plan to meet the income forecast that they had planned.
Most of the manufacturers of iPhone components found in China are located outside the province of Hubei, where the focus of the epidemic has been located and in recent days have started to resume productionBut the lack of components is delaying manufacturing.
The lack of supplies of the components necessary to make iPhones, along with the lower demand for Apple products in China (the 42 owned stores have been closed since the beginning of February) are two of the reasons that the company exposes to justify that it will not meet the revenue objectives that it had set.