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Foxconn states that it has enough staff to meet 2020 iPhone launch

This is somewhat better news. Apple supplier Foxconn has announced that the company has reached its recruitment goals ahead of schedule and now has enough workers to meet “seasonal demand” at all of its Chinese plants. The hiring information suggests that Foxconn’s factories will be adequately staffed for the launch of the 2020 model iPhones […]

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Chinese Apple Store locations, Foxconn plants, “cautiously” reopening in wake of coronavirus outbreak

Apple is trying to get things up and running again in China following the coronavirus outbreak and the forced closure of iPhone assembler Foxconn’s main assembly plant. Apple, in turn, has announced that it will be “cautiously” resuming production in its main iPhone manufacturing plants. Foxconn announced that it is cautiously reopening its plants, but […]

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Apple announces that it will miss quarterly guidance, iPhone sales estimates, due to coronavirus outbreak

Even a giant can be temporarily hobbled by sickness. Apple has revised its quarterly guidance downward not just a as a result of lowered sales in China because of the coronavirus, but also because of production problems in the country that are just now starting to be overcome. The company issued the following statement on […]

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Coronavirus continues to impact Foxconn’s Zhengzhou iPhone manufacturing plant, only 10 percent of workers estimated to have returned

It only takes a viral outbreak to throw things pretty far out of whack. More than a week after shutting down all stores and offices in China as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, Apple supplier Foxconn was approved to resume production at its Zhengzhou manufacturing plant. According to an anonymous source with direct knowledge, […]

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Foxconn staff ordered to stay away from Shenzhen factory due to Coronavirus outbreak

Apple, like other companies, is feeling the effect of the coronavirus outbreak. To this point, key iPhone assembler Foxconn has told its workers to stay away from its Shenzhen factory. The moratorium referents a noted effort by Apple’s chief supplier to curb the efforts of the outbreak, which has paralyzed much of China’s manufacturing. Shenzhen […]