The new type of coronavirus emerging in Wuhan, China towards the end of 2019 caused many factories to close down throughout the country. At this point, many people were wondering when the technology giant Apple’s supply chain would return to normal and meet the iPhone 12 demands. A new report by Nikkei says Foxconn, one of the largest iPhone manufacturers, has managed to secure enough workers to meet the ‘seasonal demand’. Taiwan-based Foxconn, one of the most important companies to assemble the iPhones, also stressed that there is a regular improvement in the labor shortage caused by the new type of coronavirus in Chinese facilities. Trouble in any supplier affects the entire iPhone 12 production capacity: A report shared by Bloomberg last week said Apple was working to meet the iPhone 12 demand. At this point, the peak season of iPhones is generally in July, just before the release of new phones in the fall. The latest shared report reveals that iPhone production remained at half of that level in February and March. On the other hand, Apple has many suppliers worldwide, and any disruption to these suppliers automatically affects the entire iPhone 12 production capacity. At the moment, when the virus epidemic, which has shown its impact all over the world, has ended, the company’s damage statement will be of great importance in this regard. Before the effects of the coronavirus epidemic began so much, Apple was expected to introduce the iPhone 9 smartphone in the first half of the year. We will only be able to see if Foxconn will speed up its production and meet the demands for iPhone 12.
