Due to the outbreak of the new coronavirus, decided to postpone a March product launch event, Cult of Mac reported citing a source at Apple.
The source said Apple grew "concerned" about bringing together some 1,000 people for the event, originally planned for late March at the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park in Cupertino, California.
The main reason Apple made this decision was that the public health department in Santa Clara County, where Apple's headquarters is located, issued a compulsory order to cancel all gathering activities for more than 1,000 people. The ban will take effect on March 11 and reach 4 On the 1st of the month, we will decide whether to lift it based on the epidemic situation.
The main reason for implementing the ban in Santa Clara County is the shortage of testing reagents and the current insufficient ability of the United States to cope with the new type of coronavirus pneumonia. Impact of the ban.
In addition, it may be because "the two new products to be released are not ready".
In February this year, affected by the outbreak of the new coronavirus in China, many of Apple's suppliers in China were forced to close factories, including Foxconn. A shortage of production capacity caused delays in the production of cheap iPhone models and other equipment.
Although Foxconn said that China's domestic factories are currently operating, due to domestic restrictions and staff shortages, the overall production level is still lower than normal.
According to previous information, Apple originally planned to announce a number of new products at this conference, including the cheap iPhone (i.e. iPhone 9/iPhone SE 2), iPad Pro with rear three cameras, cheap/upgraded AirPods Pro, and New Mac products and much more.
One of the most striking is, of course, the cheap iPhone, the iPhone 9.
It is said that the iPhone 9 uses a mold similar to the iPhone 8 with a 4.7-inch LCD screen and a glass back cover with a metal frame.
It may be equipped with an A13 processor, 3GB of storage, a single front and rear camera, retains Touch ID fingerprint recognition, and the performance is close to the top period.
It is rumored to cost only $399.
Affected by the increasing outbreak of new coronavirus pneumonia in foreign countries, many well-known exhibitions have chosen to delay or cancel.
Since March, many well-known technology industry conferences such as Nvidia GTC 2020, GDC (Game Developers Conference) 2020, Google I/O 2020 Developers Conference, Facebook F8 Developers Conference, etc. have been cancelled/delayed/go online, Apple is also joining this rank today.
Not only that, but the usual Apple Global Developer Conference (WWDC) in June is also in danger of being cancelled.
Apple usually informs developers of the WWDC's hosting plan a few months in advance, so that developers can purchase airline tickets and book hotel rooms in advance, but no developers have received this information.
Even if Apple does not hold an offline conference, it can still choose to publish new products through online conferences, so everyone who looks forward to Apple's new products need not worry too much.
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