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Bear in mind that the quarter is before the lockdown.

>>> Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2020 second quarter ended March 28, 2020.

China is one of Apple's largest markets, though, and they were dealing with Coronavirus for the entire quarter.

The lockdown began in Wuhan on 23th January. It was extended to the rest of China somewhen in February. That's not quite the whole quarter.

Wuhan was basically shut down for the whole quarter, but the rest of China was impacted for only a few weeks though.

The shutdown started on Jan. 23 and things were already reopening by mid-February, and mostly back to normal in March.

Easing lockdowns != resumption of normal economic activity.