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- iPhone assembler Foxconn says that production has resumed and is exceeding expectations.
- The worst of the coronavirus outbreak is seemingly behind China as a whole as life begins to get back to normal.
- Although production in China is getting back on track, iPhone sales are still expected to be lower than usual as the rest of the world deals with the outbreak.
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When the coronavirus outbreak struck China in late 2019, one of the first steps that the country took was to keep its citizens out of places where they might be more likely to catch or spread the virus. Stop and think for even an instant about just how much of what you own was either manufactured in China or contains parts that were manufactured in China and you can begin to understand the impact of countless factories shutting down for days or weeks at a time. Unsurprisingly, Apple's iPhone was one of many products affected by the shutdown.
As we've reported on multiple occasions over the past few weeks, iPhone production slowed significantly, leading to constrained supplies and lower sales around the world, but now that the situation appears to be stabilizing in China, Hon Hai Precision Industry (aka Foxconn) is reporting that not only has production finally resumed at its factories in mainland China, but that the factories have “exceeded expectations” (via South China Morning Post).
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iPhone shortages might be over soon, as work at Foxconn resumes originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 12 Mar 2020 at 14:21:07 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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