The Wuhan coronavirus (already known worldwide as COVID-19) is still on everyone's lips. Not only in the conversations of ordinary people but in the great administrative councils of large companies. The impact it is having on the entire global economic and commercial sphere is key to understanding the future of companies. The stock of iPad Pro from Apple it is declining in many stores globally, including online orders. However, some sources suggest that this decline had been occurring before the appearance of COVID-19, therefore, Is lack of stock a sign of new iPad Pro coming?
Assumptions of a new iPad Pro vs the influence of the coronavirus COVID-19
One of the reports that support the idea of new iPad Pro comes from Bloomberg, the US news outlet, in whose statement the following excerpt:
El iPad Pro está teniendo disponibilidad limitada en las tiendas en las principales ciudades de los EE. UU., Australia y Europa, según una revisión del sitio web de Apple el lunes. El iPad Pro de 12.9 pulgadas con 512 GB, sin LTE está agotado en todas las tiendas de Apple en el área de Los Ángeles.
Este mismo modelo y otras versiones también se están agotando en muchas tiendas en la ciudad de Nueva York.
Algunos empleados de la tienda física de Apple dijeron que comenzaron a notar un inventario reducido del iPad Pro en la última semana.
These last employees decided not to identify themselves alleging private product information. It is very likely that the employees do have some more information but Apple completely restricts them from talking about the news in terms of the stock of the products. If it is true that Apple try to sell the maximum number of state-of-the-art products for greater impact when the new product is launched. In this way, they make sure to keep a large number of devices from previous generations.
However, the reality is that although we have a limited stock It is very likely and it can be seen that the production of components in factories like Foxconn's has been reduced, which is also an indication that there is really a slowdown in the production of complete products.
We are left with two totally valid hypotheses, the veracity of which we cannot confirm until there is more information from Apple. Although some rumors point to an event between March and April for a launch of the new iPad Pro, they are not expected to bring very striking changes either. Perhaps Apple has decided to wait a little longer due to the influence that COVID-19 has had and that was not in their plans, of course.