Following partial or complete Apple store reopenings in places like China, South Korea, Australia, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and the United States, the Cupertino giant is next scheduled to reopen ten of the seventeen stores that it operates in Italy, beginning May 19, which was the hardest-hit European country in terms of the coronavirus epidemic.
Apple is currently undergoing the slow and steady process of reopening its retail stores across the globe, even as the global health crisis continues.
Apple wants to help people who would like to buy its products from home during the global coronavirus health crisis so the company today launched an online store hub that presents products, services and other relevant information in a new central location.
According to local reports, Apple will begin reopening all of the fifteen brick-and-mortar stores it operates in Germany, an 83 million people market, next Monday, May 11.
Apple has acknowledged that it will be reopening a bunch of company-owned brick-and-mortar locations in Australia, a 25 million people market, on Thursday, May 7, 2020.
Apple's retail store in Vienna, Austria has reopened today with everything that goes with it, including products, services and specialists. The location reopened at 11am this morning.
Last week, Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, said that some stores in Austria and Australia would start to reopen within the next week or so. And now we've got a reopening day for at least one of the retail stores.
Right now, the majority of Apple's physical retail stores all across the globe --excluding in China-- are closed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. But it sounds like that will start to change soon.
Apple's retail head says "many more" store reopenings are coming next month.
In March, Apple confirmed that it would be keeping its retail stores outside of China closed "indefinitely", or until it was deemed viable to reopen them, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Apple's reportedly decided to keep its stores in the United States closed until at least early May due to the coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic. There are about 270 Apple Stores in the US.
Another piece of evidence surfaced Thursday, and it apparently reveals the official name of Apple's upcoming low-cost iPhone model.