Tim Cook optimistic that coronavirus is getting under control in China
In an excerpt from an interview that will Air on Friday, Apple CEO Tim Cook says that he is hopeful that coronavirus is starting to get under control in China, and factories are coming back online.
Tim Cook being interviewed by FOX Business Network's Susan Li
In an interview that was made just after Cook's appearance in Birmingham, Alabama to launch the Ed Farm civil rights and coding education initiatives, Fox Business Network's Susan Li asked about the business impact of coronavirus.
"It feels to me that China is getting the Coronavirus under control. You look at the numbers coming down day by day by day so I'm very optimistic there -- on the suppliers side, we have suppliers - you know, iPhone is built everywhere in the world, we have key components coming from United States we have parts coming from China, so on and so forth," Cook said in an excerpt of the full interview. "When you look at the parts that are done in China, we have reopened factories so the factories are working through the conditions to open, they're reopening. They're also in ramp. So I sort of I think of this as the third phase in getting back to normal, and we're in phase three of the ramp mode."
During the interview expected to air on February 28, Cook will discuss the Ed Farm initiative. Other topics include further discussion of the coronavirus, the virus' global economic impact, and Apple's sales expectation revision that it issued on February 18.
Because of demand impacts in China and a slower than expected manufacturing ramp-up, Apple supplied a wide-swinging guidance for the second fiscal quarter earnings. Apple was previously predicting between $63 billion to $67 billion in the quarter, with the wider than normal range to account uncertainty around the outbreak, but declined to offer a new forecast range.
Apple has reopened about half of its retail stores in China for limited hours, but is restricting the number of customers that can enter the store. Apple assembler Foxconn is paying workers extra to return to plants -- and it isn't clear what capacity the factories can deliver at this time.
Tim Cook being interviewed by FOX Business Network's Susan Li
In an interview that was made just after Cook's appearance in Birmingham, Alabama to launch the Ed Farm civil rights and coding education initiatives, Fox Business Network's Susan Li asked about the business impact of coronavirus.
"It feels to me that China is getting the Coronavirus under control. You look at the numbers coming down day by day by day so I'm very optimistic there -- on the suppliers side, we have suppliers - you know, iPhone is built everywhere in the world, we have key components coming from United States we have parts coming from China, so on and so forth," Cook said in an excerpt of the full interview. "When you look at the parts that are done in China, we have reopened factories so the factories are working through the conditions to open, they're reopening. They're also in ramp. So I sort of I think of this as the third phase in getting back to normal, and we're in phase three of the ramp mode."
During the interview expected to air on February 28, Cook will discuss the Ed Farm initiative. Other topics include further discussion of the coronavirus, the virus' global economic impact, and Apple's sales expectation revision that it issued on February 18.
Because of demand impacts in China and a slower than expected manufacturing ramp-up, Apple supplied a wide-swinging guidance for the second fiscal quarter earnings. Apple was previously predicting between $63 billion to $67 billion in the quarter, with the wider than normal range to account uncertainty around the outbreak, but declined to offer a new forecast range.
Apple has reopened about half of its retail stores in China for limited hours, but is restricting the number of customers that can enter the store. Apple assembler Foxconn is paying workers extra to return to plants -- and it isn't clear what capacity the factories can deliver at this time.
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The CBC has aired interviews with a fellow in quarantine in Japan off the cruise ship. Somehow his wife wasn't infected and is already in Canada. He should be released this weekend - just waiting for final clearance that his tests are negative.
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-japan-confirms-first-case-of-person-being-reinfected-with-covid-19-11944295
Their perspective is tainted.
Tim Cook is not a doctor or a charity worker, luckily.
WHO is focused on the globe knowing that China is well under way in recovery. They're focused on what if the airborn vectors spread to other regions and how humans build up antibodies and spread will be different based on a variety of differences between China and the rest of the globe.
Tim Cook has done a great job as CEO.
Would you prefer somebody who uses high cost labor and not making their company much profits?
You are welcome to run your own company in that way, if that's how you roll.
The Chinese workers make a decent wage.
And if anybody truly believes that Apple uses slave labor and those same people go around making slanderous, false and dumb claims, why in the world would they continue to use any Apple products or even come to an Apple forum?
These people obviously have zero principles in addition to having a very loose relationship with the truth and facts.