Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Monday, April 27th, 2020.

I'm Brian McCulloch today.

I phone production might be delayed, but the launch might not be, and actually that might bounce in Apple's favor.

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Sources are telling the Wall Street Journal that Apple has been forced to push back

the production of its flagship iPhones due later this year. Production has been delayed

by about a month, the sources say.

But that doesn't mean that the phones won't still launch in September as usual,

quoting the journal.

Apple usually

unvails new iPhone models in mid-September and begin selling them before the end of the month.

To do so it usually ramps up mass production in the early summer,

building up inventory around August.

This year, while Apple would still be building some of the new phones in the

July to September period, the mass production ramp up will slide back by about a month, the people

said. Apple is slashing the number of handsets that it plans to make in the second half of this year by as much as 20%, one of the people said.

It isn't clear whether the slashed amount for 2020 would be pushed back into 2021 for manufacturing. for unless Apple fails to ship the iPhone before the 2020 holiday season, its biggest sales period."

Indeed, I'm not suggesting that Apple doesn't want to produce and sell as many iPhones as it possibly can.

But given the current economic situation,

this might be a bit of a blessing for Apple.

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