{"id":864,"date":"2020-03-15T00:21:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T23:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobiletidings.com\/?p=864"},"modified":"2020-07-16T22:08:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T21:08:11","slug":"apple-is-closing-all-of-its-stores-outside-of-china-until-march-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techsofar.com\/apple-is-closing-all-of-its-stores-outside-of-china-until-march-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple closing all its stores outside of China until March 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A statement was made on the company\u2019s website stating that all Apple stores outside china will be closed down due to lessons it had learned from its response to the outbreak in China.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Executive officer of Apple Inc, TOM Cook stated \u201cWhat we\u2019ve learned together has helped us all develop the best practices that are assisting enormously in our global response,\u201d and \u201cOne of those lessons is that the most effective way to minimize the risk of the virus\u2019s transmission is to reduce density and maximize social distance.<\/p>\n<p>Cook also states \u201cAt Apple, we are people first and we do what we do with the belief that technology can change lives and hope that it can be a valuable tool in moments like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-866 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/techsofar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/apple-suzhou.jpg\" alt=\"apple closing its stores\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techsofar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/apple-suzhou.jpg 800w, https:\/\/techsofar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/apple-suzhou-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/techsofar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/apple-suzhou-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/techsofar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/apple-suzhou-380x254.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apple is committed to paying all of its workers who work hourly as if the stores were remaining open. It said it would also expand its leave policies to accommodate personal or family health circumstances caused by COVID-19 and does recovering from illness, caring for someone infected.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has spent $15 million in donations to COVID-19 and said it will be matching employee donations two-to-one to support response efforts, locally, nationally, and internationally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A statement was made on the company\u2019s website stating that all Apple stores outside china will be closed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/techsofar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Apple-Store-Chongqing-China.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techsofar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techsofar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techsofar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techsofar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techsofar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techsofar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techsofar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techsofar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techsofar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techsofar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}