Apple and 5G struggles for new iPhone 12

The new device was expected in the autumn. But according to the Asian press, the company is assessing the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the production chain and global demand. The decision by May. Apple is preparing to postpone the launch of the next iPhone 5G, scheduled for the autumn, of a few months due to the coronavirus pandemic which is creating problems both for the production and distribution chain and for the global demand for consumer goods. According to the Nikkei Asian Review, which has collected market rumors, the pandemic would have overwhelmed the programming capacity of Apple’s products, causing difficulties for both production and diffusion across the planet. In addition, the risk for Apple would be to find itself in a situation of sharply slowed down demand at the time of the launch of its 5G device.

According to sources collected by the press, a series of top meetings are being held in Cupertino to decide on the possibility of postponing the launch of iPhones probably equipped with 5G connectivity. Usually Apple presents the products that will become the key to purchases during the Christmas period during September with an event reserved for the press.

Apple is at least a year behind its two main rivals, Samsung and Huawei, at least from this point of view. Even the recent introduction of the new generation of iPad Pro, Apple tablets this year equipped with an enhanced photographic sector and a Lidar sensor for augmented reality, are equipped with traditional 4G and WiFi connections. At the beginning of the calendar year, Apple usually plans to finalize the iPhone project which will be marketed in September, and in the following months its production chain, composed of subcontractors all over the world who supply the components and assemblers who proceed to the Final realization of the appliances, their packaging and storage pending shipment, is active in these weeks.

The company usually starts a very large machine that prepares up to 100 million appliances (according to rumors) pending purchases during the Christmas period, between the black friday in October and the Christmas holidays in late December.