Earlier this month, Apple shuttered many facets of its Apple Park and older Infinite Loop campuses as San Francisco Bay Area officials put in place stay-at-home orders to curb the spread of coronavirus.
With this, the company seems to have temporarily adopted the Work From Home culture, even though Apple is not an ideal company to have this work culture having a giant campus and dozens of offices across the world.
Despite this, it is reported that Apple is still working on the new versions of several of its products, including the HomePod, Apple TV, MacBook Pro, budget iPads, Apple Watch, iPhone, and iMac.
A report claims that all of these devices could be released “as early as later this year” and have been previously rumoured to get released in the 2020. It also claims that the company’s software updates are also on track and are expected to be debuted in June at a virtual version of WWDC.
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While some employees are allowed into Apple’s Silicon Valley offices for work that requires hands-on development, but there has been some setbacks as working from office is not possible in other parts of the world like Italy, Germany, and Asia.
With work-from-home order, Apple has also clamped down employees allowed to take home future versions of new software, including iOS 14. As per the report, employees working on iOS 14 and other software updates need approval from Apple’s executive team.
Apart from this work-related situation, the tech giant has also shut down all 458 of its stores outside of mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong earlier this month. The company had also put purchase restrictions on customers, but have now been removed for all the regions, except China.
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