Do you feel lucky that US and an alliance of 50+ advanced economies can hold their own against the mistress/gas station? Somehow I don't think you do.
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China Expanding Government iPhone Ban
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Ding ding ding. Many Chinese phones make it near impossible to get a VPN or use the Google play or unlocked app story. They had some leaks and get a two for one with hitting a US company.
More proof the West should not rely on China for anything. China's market for Apple should be icing on a cake, not "important".
China's communist party rulers are power hungry. It would be much better if China were a democracy. The country could change paths every 4 years. Instead it's the Xi doldrums for 20 more years.
China's communist party rulers are power hungry. It would be much better if China were a democracy. The country could change paths every 4 years. Instead it's the Xi doldrums for 20 more years.
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This just means that those workers will end up buying an iPhone separately for personal use. Or the story is being blown out of proportion. Or this was a warning shot a week before the next iPhone launch that supposedly will see initial manufacturing also out of India.
Apple will continue to pull its manufacturing out of China... there is no future there...
True, but the CCP isn't trying to build a healthy society of mutual trust. The state workers just need to be properly subservient to the party if they want enough social credit to rent a home, ride a bus, or order take-out.
Remember. There is no concept of “private company” in Communism. All companies in Communist China are subject to state control and monitoring
I am just curious what your thoughts were when US (and their lapdogs) banned the use of Huawei phones?
This has nothing to do with Android or iOS. Other foreign phones (read: Android phones) were banned as well.
China has real reasons to mistrust the hardware from the US companies. As was reported by Snowden: "Routers, switches, and servers made by Cisco are booby-trapped with surveillance equipment that intercepts traffic handled by those devices and copies it to the NSA's network".
Are you sure about that? Once they do it, China will just ban all Apple hardware altogether and China is the biggest iPhone market (since the second quarter of this year). Besides, Apple is only moving the most trivial assembly to other countries. 90% of iPhone components are still manufactured in China. No other country has similar industrial prowess.
To put this in context, and to reveal the double standards, the US has consistently blocked and sanctioned foreign technology, even those from Japan and Europe. Also, the US has a huge number state-sponsored companies.
Just one more example of the CCP hypocrisy, we will take your tech and expertise then build our own to steal your market.![]()
China earlier this week banned government officials from using iPhones and other foreign smartphones for work or from bringing such devices to their government offices, and now China is expanding the ban. According to Bloomberg, multiple state agencies and state companies have started telling workers not to bring their iPhones in to their jobs.
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The restriction is expected to expand to additional government-controlled organizations in the future as China aims to block foreign technology. China does not yet have a formal injunction, so it is not yet known how many companies may adopt the iPhone restrictions. China has a huge number of state-owned enterprises in power generation, seaport construction, mining, manufacturing, education, and investment markets. Foreign devices have historically been discouraged in sensitive agencies, but China is now taking a firmer stance.
China is an important market for Apple, and the ban could push customers to purchase Chinese-made devices if they are unable to use their personal iPhones for much of the day. Bloomberg suggests that the strictness of the bans could vary from company to company, with some banning Apple products from the workplace and some preventing employees from using Apple devices entirely.
Apple stock has been dropping since yesterday, and it is down over 5 percent as of Thursday.
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If they do do that, I'd reckon they'll be leaving the market in China since the CCP they won't take too kindly to that. (FWIW, we'll know they've always been sensitive and uptight about that sort of thing, and frankly, they'll put on a show to save face, but they know it too)
Huawei was banned because it's not trustworthy because all significant China companies like Huawei have shady links to China's government. It is all about trust and Huawei is not trustworthy.
China's punitive damages towards Apple only shows how much China's government sucks.
There is the argument of ”do we want it to survive, as we know it?”
Apple has the 65% market share in China (devices over $600), keeping a few officials from bringing their phones into work, isn’t going to hurt Apple at all, and Apple isn’t going to do anything to hurt their market share over either.
The US manufacturing is among the most productive in the world per employee. Not sure why this slur is necessary. Jobs leave because we create policies that make it prohibitive to employ Americans and then cry that jobs leave. They dont leave because we are not productive.
No surprise. Just wait until Chinese social credit score drops for using iPhone.
But they didn’t move all iphone production out of China yet, just some of it.
A democratic India and China would be great leaders for the 21st and 22nd centuries. The sooner China is free the better for everyone.
Sure except Germany, Taiwan, Japan, the US, France, the UK, India, etc. Sure no other country except all those who make advanced components and devices in many industries.