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i have a solution to solve all this.
Apple should purchase WeChat *mic drops*
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95% of Chinese Users Surveyed Would Rather Give Up Their iPhones Than Lose WeChat
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i have a solution to solve all this.
Apple should purchase WeChat *mic drops*
I have a lot of Chinese and Chinese American friends- none of them are using QQ and iMessage to chat. They use WeChat. Again idk where you get this information from. I think you underestimate how many people use WeChat
Due to regional restrictions, Americans don't even have access to 1/10 of the features of WeChat. Please don't tell me how much I know.
It doesn't matter where your headquarters is located. If Apple intents to sell phones in US, US division have to abide by US laws. Just like any US companies that operate in Canada, Canadian division have to abide by Canadian laws.
You can't just say we are based in Switzerland therefore screw US laws
Yeah, but Chinese users dont have google play store access anyway so it doesn’t matter, and for reasons stated by other members too.
Of course it matters where the HQ is located.
For example, ARM is HQ'ed in the UK. As a result, it doesn't have to listen to the U.S. about technology restrictions.
Qualcomm however, cannot sell to Huawei. As a result, Qualcomm is lobbying to change that.
Another poorly thought-out and ham-handedly applied decision by the current administration. So far the only customers injured by the administration's trade war with China have been Americans.
Oh well. I am fine without WeChat, but not so much for lots of other people. With all the tension between US and China nowadays, ditching iPhone is far easier than ditching WeChat for normal Chinese.
Not sure where the “no WeChat no social score” comes from, but that sounds scary.
When will Trump stop damaging the world?
Not sure where the “no WeChat no social score” comes from, but that sounds scary.
When will Trump stop damaging the world?
Why wouldn't you read the article to learn the answer to that question?
Yeah then what? They dont have respect to privacy and security anyways. iOS or Android doesn’t even matter to them at all.
Sure, Apple will just pack up 150,000 people, liquidate all their office and retail real estate holdings in the US, close all US factories, and move to Switzerland.
Great idea. Let us know when you solve cold fusion and cure cancer.
Who said it applies in China? It bans US companies from doing business with Tencent and ByteDance.
It is not. Android is open source. Anyone can take it and fork it without Google's permission. Google is certainly a major driver of the main Android fork, but they are not the only one (Sony wrote fairly significant parts of AOSP's codebase, and most of it derives from Linux ultimately).
Amazon's FireOS is an Android operating system but isn't in any way licensed by Google (do you really think Google would license it to Amazon to build a competing OS that's more successful, but makes Google no money and actively blocked some Google apps like YouTube if they owned it???).
This headline refers to the closed source Google Play Services and Google Play Store libraries that were distributed to Huawei for their European devices. Those libraries weren't used in China anyway as Google doesn't have permission to operate in China from the Chinese government. And Huawei have continued to release Android phones in Europe since it happened, they just don't use the additional Google libraries.
Yup. But you didn’t know there is Android open source project and closed sources project. All the big Android players use Android closed source which is licensed by Google. It’s why they get all the cool stuff... The open source is like 70% of the features of the closed source.
That honestly sounds awful. Everything in society being based around one, single monopolistic app? No thanks.
Exactly right.
I think you are seriously underestimating how integral that app is in China. It’s basically the messaging app that everyone uses, it’s a social media platform, does mobile payments, and probably more.
I see iPhone users on this forum say that they are tied to iPhones just because they can’t give up iMessage. WeChat is much more integral to these users than iMessage. For many, it is literally the only reason they own a smartphone.
People who are saying they can just use another app are not getting it. This app matters more than the hardware. If a potato could run WeChat people in China would choose them over an iPhone that doesn’t.
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There are two Android products closed and open source. Major phone companies are using and licensing the closed source android OS...Android OS has two branches. It’s not 100% open source because there is a closed source branch that is licensed all most of the major phone makers
Elsewhere:
“Huawei is now restricted to using the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), cutting the company off from critical Google apps and services that consumers OUTSIDE OF CHINA expect on Android devices.”
So for inside China, open source android is totally fine.
Two different things. If Apple relocates, the US can’t dictate what they do. They could ban all Apple products in the US. So, bring it on and screw the US. Similar to what Steve Jobs once said, the US is like a ship with a hole in the bottom leaking water and Trump is doing a great job pointing it in the right direction (down). With the US under Trump becoming something worse than China and Russia, Apple should seriously think about relocating, and while they’re at it convince MS, Google, Facebook, Twitter and all the others to do the same. If that would happen, Trump would change in a heartbeat. Then again, all he’s interest in is total power, so maybe it’s easier to ship him off to North Korea. I bet he and Kim would be new best friends. With some luck, this could all be over soon and we could go back to normal, November will tell.
It’s not just that- they lost contact with Google and the AOSP is not the same as the closed source project. Plus they dont get all the new Android stuff unless Google decides to open source those features.