Coronavirus it will be a much bigger problem for the iPhone 12 production than for the iPhone 9, or at least that's what the Asian analysts who talked to Apple's partners who deliver components and assemble its mobile phones say now.
Coronavirus forced Apple to stop the trips of its engineers to China, and this seems to affect the development process of the iPhone 12, the new phones being tested right at the factories where they are to be produced, so Apple has problems with completing the development.
iPhone 12 it wouldn't go into production in June if the situation with the Corona virus doesn't improve, and Apple might be forced to launch with extremely limited stocks for the new series of phones, which would be a huge problem for them.
Coronavirus has a relatively good chance of postponing the launch of the new iPhone phones, and this in the conditions that in March the travel restrictions will not be lifted by Apple, and the situation in China will remain as serious as it is now.
"Suppliers in Taiwan are gearing up for production of a new lower-cost iPhone, a device that has been tentatively called the iPhone SE 2 or iPhone 9. While the lower-cost iPhone may be on the way, Apple has stopped send more engineers to China to help with the engineering validation test or EVT stage of iPhone 12 development.”
Coronavirus will affect iPhone 12 production not only because Apple engineers can't get to check the phones on the assembly lines, but also because there won't be enough people to work on the assembly lines for the phones.
