Foxconn says coronavirus will not impact manufacturing, Apple has alternatives ready

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Apple manufacturing partner Foxconn on Tuesday said provisions have been made to meet production obligations in China as the region faces a deadly coronavirus outbreak, a situation the iPhone maker is closely monitoring.

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The contract manufacturer, responsible for assembling a significant portion of Apple's product line including iPhone, iPad and Mac, in a statement issued today noted its facilities are prepared to fulfill all global orders, Reuters reports.

"We do not comment on our specific production practices, but we can confirm that we have measures in place to ensure that we can continue to meet all global manufacturing obligations," Foxconn said.

According to a live tally from The New York Times, there are nearly 6,000 confirmed cases of a new form of coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China, as of this writing. The disease has killed 132 people in the region.

In efforts to halt the spread of the virus, China this week extended the Lunar New Year holiday to reduce mass gatherings. Officials hope to stem the tide as millions of people congregate at airports, train stations and other communal areas for necessary travel back to work.

Foxconn, which operates a plant in Wuhan, said its facilities in China are following holiday schedules until all Chinese businesses return to standard operating hours, the report said.

On Tuesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook discussed the potential impact the coronavirus might have on the company during an earnings conference call for the first fiscal quarter of 2020. Fallout from the outbreak has so far been minimal, with one Apple retail store closed and employee travel limited.

The tech giant is bracing for adverse effects, however, as evidenced by an unusually wide revenue guidance range between $63 billion and $67 billion for the second quarter. The $4 billion buffer is directly related to uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus.

"The situation is emerging, and we're still gathering lots of data points and monitoring it very closely," Cook told Reuters.

Apple relies on a number of suppliers located in Wuhan, but has contingency plans in place. Whether Foxconn's plant in the city churns out Apple products is unknown.

"We have alternate sourcing and contingency plans," Cook said during today's conference call. "Factories outside Wuhan are less clear. We are trying to factor in factory re-opening delays into our guidance."

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  • Reply 1 of 19
    “We have alternate sourcing and contingency plans," Cook said during today's conference call. "Factories outside Wuhan are less clear. We are trying to factor in factory re-opening delays into our guidance.”

    Once again, Tim Cook has proven to be the King of the Supply Chain. Almost everything pundits like to parrot - Apple’s revenues too dependent on the iPhone, iPhone market too saturated - he was already working on before they even became problems. I’ll bet you, despite Cook’s assurances, a few analysts are going to downgrade Apple’s because of what’s happening in Wuhan.
    tmayronnMacProwatto_cobra
  • Reply 2 of 19
    tmaytmay Posts: 6,309member
    the monk said:
    “We have alternate sourcing and contingency plans," Cook said during today's conference call. "Factories outside Wuhan are less clear. We are trying to factor in factory re-opening delays into our guidance.”

    Once again, Tim Cook has proven to be the King of the Supply Chain. Almost everything pundits like to parrot - Apple’s revenues too dependent on the iPhone, iPhone market too saturated - he was already working on before they even became problems. I’ll bet you, despite Cook’s assurances, a few analysts are going to downgrade Apple’s because of what’s happening in Wuhan.
    I'd expect a bit of a downgrade merely from the fact that China is going to see a hit on their overall economy, especially if this epidemic drags on.
    donjuanwatto_cobra
  • Reply 3 of 19
    people are getting sick and potentially dying but don’t worry, we will do our best to not let it impact share holder return.
  • Reply 4 of 19
    tmaytmay Posts: 6,309member
    people are getting sick and potentially dying but don’t worry, we will do our best to not let it impact share holder return.
    You need to think about how many people die from the common flu in the U.S., not to mention the rest of the world.

    https://abcnews.go.com/Health/1300-people-died-flu-year/story?id=67754182

    "So far, 8,200 people have died and 140,000 people have been hospitalized during the 2019-2020 flu season, according to preliminary estimates from the CDC."

    DBAD...
    edited January 2020 pscooter63ronndonjuannetroxwatto_cobra
  • Reply 5 of 19
    jcs2305jcs2305 Posts: 1,336member
    tmay said:
    people are getting sick and potentially dying but don’t worry, we will do our best to not let it impact share holder return.
    You need to think about how many people die from the common flu in the U.S., not to mention the rest of the world.

    https://abcnews.go.com/Health/1300-people-died-flu-year/story?id=67754182

    "So far, 8,200 people have died and 140,000 people have been hospitalized during the 2019-2020 flu season, according to preliminary estimates from the CDC."

    DBAD...

    Exactly...

    Flu deaths aren't being talked about across every national news outlet or here on Appleinsider though.  So it doesn't really truly matter.. hahaha  People make me laugh with the bleeding heart nonsense.




    watto_cobra
  • Reply 6 of 19
    lmaclmac Posts: 206member
    Flu deaths aren't being talked about across every national news outlet or here on Appleinsider though.  So it doesn't really truly matter.. hahaha  People make me laugh with the bleeding heart nonsense. 
    If you find the misfortune of others funny, you might want to get that looked at.
    Soli
  • Reply 7 of 19
    jimh2jimh2 Posts: 611member
    In the back of everyone's mind, or at least those who know about it, is the Spanish Flu (1918-1920) that killed 50 million with some estimates being double that. To put that number in perspective it represents 3-5% of the worlds population at the time. The typical flu virus kills a significantly higher percentage of those who are very young and very old. The Spanish Flu took out a much higher than expected percentage of young adults which is not normal for the flu.
    watto_cobra
  • Reply 8 of 19
    The Chinese have allowed Tim Cook to use the Uyghur work camps for iPhone production. 
  • Reply 9 of 19
    M68000M68000 Posts: 719member
    jcs2305 said:
    tmay said:
    people are getting sick and potentially dying but don’t worry, we will do our best to not let it impact share holder return.
    You need to think about how many people die from the common flu in the U.S., not to mention the rest of the world.

    https://abcnews.go.com/Health/1300-people-died-flu-year/story?id=67754182

    "So far, 8,200 people have died and 140,000 people have been hospitalized during the 2019-2020 flu season, according to preliminary estimates from the CDC."

    DBAD...

    Exactly...

    Flu deaths aren't being talked about across every national news outlet or here on Appleinsider though.  So it doesn't really truly matter.. hahaha  People make me laugh with the bleeding heart nonsense.




    You are implying that this new virus with many unknowns is not a big deal.  Is that what you are saying?  If that’s what you are saying then that is truly sad.  China is taking unprecedented measures with this and countries all over world have shut off travel.
  • Reply 10 of 19
    tmaytmay Posts: 6,309member
    M68000 said:
    jcs2305 said:
    tmay said:
    people are getting sick and potentially dying but don’t worry, we will do our best to not let it impact share holder return.
    You need to think about how many people die from the common flu in the U.S., not to mention the rest of the world.

    https://abcnews.go.com/Health/1300-people-died-flu-year/story?id=67754182

    "So far, 8,200 people have died and 140,000 people have been hospitalized during the 2019-2020 flu season, according to preliminary estimates from the CDC."

    DBAD...

    Exactly...

    Flu deaths aren't being talked about across every national news outlet or here on Appleinsider though.  So it doesn't really truly matter.. hahaha  People make me laugh with the bleeding heart nonsense.




    You are implying that this new virus with many unknowns is not a big deal.  Is that what you are saying?  If that’s what you are saying then that is truly sad.  China is taking unprecedented measures with this and countries all over world have shut off travel.
    To be accurate, the Chinese Government kept the initial cases found in early December under wraps, and because of that, less was done to mitigate the spread of the virus, so "unprecedented measures" now is really due to negligence earlier.
    watto_cobra
  • Reply 11 of 19
    tzeshantzeshan Posts: 2,351member
    tmay said:
    M68000 said:
    jcs2305 said:
    tmay said:
    people are getting sick and potentially dying but don’t worry, we will do our best to not let it impact share holder return.
    You need to think about how many people die from the common flu in the U.S., not to mention the rest of the world.

    https://abcnews.go.com/Health/1300-people-died-flu-year/story?id=67754182

    "So far, 8,200 people have died and 140,000 people have been hospitalized during the 2019-2020 flu season, according to preliminary estimates from the CDC."

    DBAD...

    Exactly...

    Flu deaths aren't being talked about across every national news outlet or here on Appleinsider though.  So it doesn't really truly matter.. hahaha  People make me laugh with the bleeding heart nonsense.




    You are implying that this new virus with many unknowns is not a big deal.  Is that what you are saying?  If that’s what you are saying then that is truly sad.  China is taking unprecedented measures with this and countries all over world have shut off travel.
    To be accurate, the Chinese Government kept the initial cases found in early December under wraps, and because of that, less was done to mitigate the spread of the virus, so "unprecedented measures" now is really due to negligence earlier.
    This is not true. The virus is not identified until Jan 7, 2020. 
  • Reply 12 of 19
    pscooter63pscooter63 Posts: 1,080member
    tzeshan said:
    This is not true. The virus is not identified until Jan 7, 2020. 
    I'm sure you meant "reported by the WHO on Jan 7, 2020", which is not the same thing.
    watto_cobra
  • Reply 13 of 19
    tzeshantzeshan Posts: 2,351member
    tzeshan said:
    This is not true. The virus is not identified until Jan 7, 2020. 
    I'm sure you meant "reported by the WHO on Jan 7, 2020", which is not the same thing.
    No! Check Wikipedia for facts. 
  • Reply 14 of 19
    tmaytmay Posts: 6,309member
    tzeshan said:
    tmay said:
    M68000 said:
    jcs2305 said:
    tmay said:
    people are getting sick and potentially dying but don’t worry, we will do our best to not let it impact share holder return.
    You need to think about how many people die from the common flu in the U.S., not to mention the rest of the world.

    https://abcnews.go.com/Health/1300-people-died-flu-year/story?id=67754182

    "So far, 8,200 people have died and 140,000 people have been hospitalized during the 2019-2020 flu season, according to preliminary estimates from the CDC."

    DBAD...

    Exactly...

    Flu deaths aren't being talked about across every national news outlet or here on Appleinsider though.  So it doesn't really truly matter.. hahaha  People make me laugh with the bleeding heart nonsense.




    You are implying that this new virus with many unknowns is not a big deal.  Is that what you are saying?  If that’s what you are saying then that is truly sad.  China is taking unprecedented measures with this and countries all over world have shut off travel.
    To be accurate, the Chinese Government kept the initial cases found in early December under wraps, and because of that, less was done to mitigate the spread of the virus, so "unprecedented measures" now is really due to negligence earlier.
    This is not true. The virus is not identified until Jan 7, 2020. 
    https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/wuhan-seafood-market-may-not-be-source-novel-virus-spreading-globally

    Earlier reports from Chinese health authorities and the World Health Organization had said the first patient had onset of symptoms on 8 December 2019—and those reports simply said “most” cases had links to the seafood market, which was closed on 1 January.

    Lucey says if the new data are accurate, the first human infections must have occurred in November 2019—if not earlier—because there is an incubation time between infection and symptoms surfacing. If so, the virus possibly spread silently between people in Wuhan—and perhaps elsewhere—before the cluster of cases from the city’s now-infamous Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was discovered in late December. “The virus came into that marketplace before it came out of that marketplace,” Lucey asserts.


    "Kristian Andersen, an evolutionary biologist at the Scripps Research Institute who has analyzed sequences of 2019-nCoV to try to clarify its origin, says the 1 December timing of the first confirmed case was “an interesting tidbit” in The Lancet paper. “The scenario of somebody being infected outside the market and then later bringing it to the market is one of the three scenarios we have considered that is still consistent with the data,” he says. “It’s entirely plausible given our current data and knowledge.” The other two scenarios are that the origin was a group of infected animals or a single animal that came into that marketplace."
    edited January 2020 watto_cobra
  • Reply 15 of 19
    tzeshantzeshan Posts: 2,351member
    tmay said:
    tzeshan said:
    tmay said:
    M68000 said:
    jcs2305 said:
    tmay said:
    people are getting sick and potentially dying but don’t worry, we will do our best to not let it impact share holder return.
    You need to think about how many people die from the common flu in the U.S., not to mention the rest of the world.

    https://abcnews.go.com/Health/1300-people-died-flu-year/story?id=67754182

    "So far, 8,200 people have died and 140,000 people have been hospitalized during the 2019-2020 flu season, according to preliminary estimates from the CDC."

    DBAD...

    Exactly...

    Flu deaths aren't being talked about across every national news outlet or here on Appleinsider though.  So it doesn't really truly matter.. hahaha  People make me laugh with the bleeding heart nonsense.




    You are implying that this new virus with many unknowns is not a big deal.  Is that what you are saying?  If that’s what you are saying then that is truly sad.  China is taking unprecedented measures with this and countries all over world have shut off travel.
    To be accurate, the Chinese Government kept the initial cases found in early December under wraps, and because of that, less was done to mitigate the spread of the virus, so "unprecedented measures" now is really due to negligence earlier.
    This is not true. The virus is not identified until Jan 7, 2020. 
    https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/wuhan-seafood-market-may-not-be-source-novel-virus-spreading-globally

    Earlier reports from Chinese health authorities and the World Health Organization had said the first patient had onset of symptoms on 8 December 2019—and those reports simply said “most” cases had links to the seafood market, which was closed on 1 January.

    Lucey says if the new data are accurate, the first human infections must have occurred in November 2019—if not earlier—because there is an incubation time between infection and symptoms surfacing. If so, the virus possibly spread silently between people in Wuhan—and perhaps elsewhere—before the cluster of cases from the city’s now-infamous Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was discovered in late December. “The virus came into that marketplace before it came out of that marketplace,” Lucey asserts.


    "Kristian Andersen, an evolutionary biologist at the Scripps Research Institute who has analyzed sequences of 2019-nCoV to try to clarify its origin, says the 1 December timing of the first confirmed case was “an interesting tidbit” in The Lancet paper. “The scenario of somebody being infected outside the market and then later bringing it to the market is one of the three scenarios we have considered that is still consistent with the data,” he says. “It’s entirely plausible given our current data and knowledge.” The other two scenarios are that the origin was a group of infected animals or a single animal that came into that marketplace."
    From Wikipedia, every year 450 million people got pneumonia around the world. Four million will die. The causes are either bacteria or virus. The normal flu will cause pneumonia. And the normal flu is caused by virus too. So for every doctor and hospital in the world when they treat a patient with pneumonia, do they try to find out where they got the pneumonia? Before the virus is identified, claiming it is a SARS-like virus is just speculation. 
  • Reply 16 of 19
    tmaytmay Posts: 6,309member
    tzeshan said:
    tmay said:
    tzeshan said:
    tmay said:
    M68000 said:
    jcs2305 said:
    tmay said:
    people are getting sick and potentially dying but don’t worry, we will do our best to not let it impact share holder return.
    You need to think about how many people die from the common flu in the U.S., not to mention the rest of the world.

    https://abcnews.go.com/Health/1300-people-died-flu-year/story?id=67754182

    "So far, 8,200 people have died and 140,000 people have been hospitalized during the 2019-2020 flu season, according to preliminary estimates from the CDC."

    DBAD...

    Exactly...

    Flu deaths aren't being talked about across every national news outlet or here on Appleinsider though.  So it doesn't really truly matter.. hahaha  People make me laugh with the bleeding heart nonsense.




    You are implying that this new virus with many unknowns is not a big deal.  Is that what you are saying?  If that’s what you are saying then that is truly sad.  China is taking unprecedented measures with this and countries all over world have shut off travel.
    To be accurate, the Chinese Government kept the initial cases found in early December under wraps, and because of that, less was done to mitigate the spread of the virus, so "unprecedented measures" now is really due to negligence earlier.
    This is not true. The virus is not identified until Jan 7, 2020. 
    https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/wuhan-seafood-market-may-not-be-source-novel-virus-spreading-globally

    Earlier reports from Chinese health authorities and the World Health Organization had said the first patient had onset of symptoms on 8 December 2019—and those reports simply said “most” cases had links to the seafood market, which was closed on 1 January.

    Lucey says if the new data are accurate, the first human infections must have occurred in November 2019—if not earlier—because there is an incubation time between infection and symptoms surfacing. If so, the virus possibly spread silently between people in Wuhan—and perhaps elsewhere—before the cluster of cases from the city’s now-infamous Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was discovered in late December. “The virus came into that marketplace before it came out of that marketplace,” Lucey asserts.


    "Kristian Andersen, an evolutionary biologist at the Scripps Research Institute who has analyzed sequences of 2019-nCoV to try to clarify its origin, says the 1 December timing of the first confirmed case was “an interesting tidbit” in The Lancet paper. “The scenario of somebody being infected outside the market and then later bringing it to the market is one of the three scenarios we have considered that is still consistent with the data,” he says. “It’s entirely plausible given our current data and knowledge.” The other two scenarios are that the origin was a group of infected animals or a single animal that came into that marketplace."
    From Wikipedia, every year 450 million people got pneumonia around the world. Four million will die. The causes are either bacteria or virus. The normal flu will cause pneumonia. And the normal flu is caused by virus too. So for every doctor and hospital in the world when they treat a patient with pneumonia, do they try to find out where they got the pneumonia? Before the virus is identified, claiming it is a SARS-like virus is just speculation. 
    http://chinamediaproject.org/2020/01/27/dramatic-actions/

    "Shutting People’s Mouths

    Everyone must understand, first of all, that this epidemic was allowed to spread for a period of more than forty days before any of the abovementioned cities were closed off, or any decisive action taken. In fact, if we look at the main efforts undertaken by the leadership, and by provincial and city governments in particular, these were focused mostly not on the containment of the epidemic itself, but on the containment and suppression of information about the disease. 

    The early suppression of news about the epidemic is now fairly common knowledge among Chinese, and many people view this failure to grapple openly with the outbreak as the chief reason why it was later seen as necessary to take the “dramatic action” of closing down my city and many others."

    I realize that you are only responding to increase your Social Score, but that facts are not on your side. 

    edited January 2020 watto_cobra
  • Reply 17 of 19
    tzeshantzeshan Posts: 2,351member
    tmay said:
    tzeshan said:
    tmay said:
    tzeshan said:
    tmay said:
    M68000 said:
    jcs2305 said:
    tmay said:
    people are getting sick and potentially dying but don’t worry, we will do our best to not let it impact share holder return.
    You need to think about how many people die from the common flu in the U.S., not to mention the rest of the world.

    https://abcnews.go.com/Health/1300-people-died-flu-year/story?id=67754182

    "So far, 8,200 people have died and 140,000 people have been hospitalized during the 2019-2020 flu season, according to preliminary estimates from the CDC."

    DBAD...

    Exactly...

    Flu deaths aren't being talked about across every national news outlet or here on Appleinsider though.  So it doesn't really truly matter.. hahaha  People make me laugh with the bleeding heart nonsense.




    You are implying that this new virus with many unknowns is not a big deal.  Is that what you are saying?  If that’s what you are saying then that is truly sad.  China is taking unprecedented measures with this and countries all over world have shut off travel.
    To be accurate, the Chinese Government kept the initial cases found in early December under wraps, and because of that, less was done to mitigate the spread of the virus, so "unprecedented measures" now is really due to negligence earlier.
    This is not true. The virus is not identified until Jan 7, 2020. 
    https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/wuhan-seafood-market-may-not-be-source-novel-virus-spreading-globally

    Earlier reports from Chinese health authorities and the World Health Organization had said the first patient had onset of symptoms on 8 December 2019—and those reports simply said “most” cases had links to the seafood market, which was closed on 1 January.

    Lucey says if the new data are accurate, the first human infections must have occurred in November 2019—if not earlier—because there is an incubation time between infection and symptoms surfacing. If so, the virus possibly spread silently between people in Wuhan—and perhaps elsewhere—before the cluster of cases from the city’s now-infamous Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was discovered in late December. “The virus came into that marketplace before it came out of that marketplace,” Lucey asserts.


    "Kristian Andersen, an evolutionary biologist at the Scripps Research Institute who has analyzed sequences of 2019-nCoV to try to clarify its origin, says the 1 December timing of the first confirmed case was “an interesting tidbit” in The Lancet paper. “The scenario of somebody being infected outside the market and then later bringing it to the market is one of the three scenarios we have considered that is still consistent with the data,” he says. “It’s entirely plausible given our current data and knowledge.” The other two scenarios are that the origin was a group of infected animals or a single animal that came into that marketplace."
    From Wikipedia, every year 450 million people got pneumonia around the world. Four million will die. The causes are either bacteria or virus. The normal flu will cause pneumonia. And the normal flu is caused by virus too. So for every doctor and hospital in the world when they treat a patient with pneumonia, do they try to find out where they got the pneumonia? Before the virus is identified, claiming it is a SARS-like virus is just speculation. 
    http://chinamediaproject.org/2020/01/27/dramatic-actions/

    "Shutting People’s Mouths

    Everyone must understand, first of all, that this epidemic was allowed to spread for a period of more than forty days before any of the abovementioned cities were closed off, or any decisive action taken. In fact, if we look at the main efforts undertaken by the leadership, and by provincial and city governments in particular, these were focused mostly not on the containment of the epidemic itself, but on the containment and suppression of information about the disease. 

    The early suppression of news about the epidemic is now fairly common knowledge among Chinese, and many people view this failure to grapple openly with the outbreak as the chief reason why it was later seen as necessary to take the “dramatic action” of closing down my city and many others."

    I realize that you are only responding to increase your Social Score, but that facts are not on your side. 

    More than forty days is exaggeration. The virus is identified on Jan 7. Wuhan city is closed off on Jan 23. The action is sixteen days late. Before the virus is identified it is not reasonable to close the city. If it is negatively identified the city official will be criticized for overreaction. 
  • Reply 18 of 19
    tmaytmay Posts: 6,309member
    tzeshan said:
    tmay said:
    tzeshan said:
    tmay said:
    tzeshan said:
    tmay said:
    M68000 said:
    jcs2305 said:
    tmay said:
    people are getting sick and potentially dying but don’t worry, we will do our best to not let it impact share holder return.
    You need to think about how many people die from the common flu in the U.S., not to mention the rest of the world.

    https://abcnews.go.com/Health/1300-people-died-flu-year/story?id=67754182

    "So far, 8,200 people have died and 140,000 people have been hospitalized during the 2019-2020 flu season, according to preliminary estimates from the CDC."

    DBAD...

    Exactly...

    Flu deaths aren't being talked about across every national news outlet or here on Appleinsider though.  So it doesn't really truly matter.. hahaha  People make me laugh with the bleeding heart nonsense.




    You are implying that this new virus with many unknowns is not a big deal.  Is that what you are saying?  If that’s what you are saying then that is truly sad.  China is taking unprecedented measures with this and countries all over world have shut off travel.
    To be accurate, the Chinese Government kept the initial cases found in early December under wraps, and because of that, less was done to mitigate the spread of the virus, so "unprecedented measures" now is really due to negligence earlier.
    This is not true. The virus is not identified until Jan 7, 2020. 
    https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/wuhan-seafood-market-may-not-be-source-novel-virus-spreading-globally

    Earlier reports from Chinese health authorities and the World Health Organization had said the first patient had onset of symptoms on 8 December 2019—and those reports simply said “most” cases had links to the seafood market, which was closed on 1 January.

    Lucey says if the new data are accurate, the first human infections must have occurred in November 2019—if not earlier—because there is an incubation time between infection and symptoms surfacing. If so, the virus possibly spread silently between people in Wuhan—and perhaps elsewhere—before the cluster of cases from the city’s now-infamous Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was discovered in late December. “The virus came into that marketplace before it came out of that marketplace,” Lucey asserts.


    "Kristian Andersen, an evolutionary biologist at the Scripps Research Institute who has analyzed sequences of 2019-nCoV to try to clarify its origin, says the 1 December timing of the first confirmed case was “an interesting tidbit” in The Lancet paper. “The scenario of somebody being infected outside the market and then later bringing it to the market is one of the three scenarios we have considered that is still consistent with the data,” he says. “It’s entirely plausible given our current data and knowledge.” The other two scenarios are that the origin was a group of infected animals or a single animal that came into that marketplace."
    From Wikipedia, every year 450 million people got pneumonia around the world. Four million will die. The causes are either bacteria or virus. The normal flu will cause pneumonia. And the normal flu is caused by virus too. So for every doctor and hospital in the world when they treat a patient with pneumonia, do they try to find out where they got the pneumonia? Before the virus is identified, claiming it is a SARS-like virus is just speculation. 
    http://chinamediaproject.org/2020/01/27/dramatic-actions/

    "Shutting People’s Mouths

    Everyone must understand, first of all, that this epidemic was allowed to spread for a period of more than forty days before any of the abovementioned cities were closed off, or any decisive action taken. In fact, if we look at the main efforts undertaken by the leadership, and by provincial and city governments in particular, these were focused mostly not on the containment of the epidemic itself, but on the containment and suppression of information about the disease. 

    The early suppression of news about the epidemic is now fairly common knowledge among Chinese, and many people view this failure to grapple openly with the outbreak as the chief reason why it was later seen as necessary to take the “dramatic action” of closing down my city and many others."

    I realize that you are only responding to increase your Social Score, but that facts are not on your side. 

    More than forty days is exaggeration. The virus is identified on Jan 7. Wuhan city is closed off on Jan 23. The action is sixteen days late. Before the virus is identified it is not reasonable to close the city. If it is negatively identified the city official will be criticized for overreaction. 
    It may not be reasonable to close the city off, but it isn't reasonable to focus on the containment and suppression of information about the disease, which at the time, was suspected to be SAR's.
    edited January 2020 watto_cobra
  • Reply 19 of 19
    MacProMacPro Posts: 19,718member
    tmay said:
    the monk said:
    “We have alternate sourcing and contingency plans," Cook said during today's conference call. "Factories outside Wuhan are less clear. We are trying to factor in factory re-opening delays into our guidance.”

    Once again, Tim Cook has proven to be the King of the Supply Chain. Almost everything pundits like to parrot - Apple’s revenues too dependent on the iPhone, iPhone market too saturated - he was already working on before they even became problems. I’ll bet you, despite Cook’s assurances, a few analysts are going to downgrade Apple’s because of what’s happening in Wuhan.
    I'd expect a bit of a downgrade merely from the fact that China is going to see a hit on their overall economy, especially if this epidemic drags on.
    Any hit over this is a buying opportunity as far as I can see.
    watto_cobra
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