Hard disagree. I see this as an example of how Apple could seize an opportunity to work with Indonesia and lessen dependency on china. Country is practically begging them. More countries ought to do this, as it stands now the global system weakens powers and principalities of the local governments
Right? Talk about game-changing. The American empire is in decline this would certainly reverse course
Indonesia is way ahead of you. Apparently iPhone 16 models are blocked from local networks based on IMEI. Good luck spoofing your IMEI without rooting iOS.
Especially if every country you operate in wants the same percentage of "domestic investment”. Ah, the trials and tribulations of the global economy. Not so global is it, if it ever was.
Where did you get this info? None of the articles I read say that. They do say that phones that have come into the country are fine, as long as they are not resold.
Not as simple as going to Singapore and pick one up. If they did, the iPhone is as good as brick when it lands in Indonesia. You can't use Indonesia network without first whitelisting the IMEI in the national system.
Check out the Wikipedia article I posted earlier and also the following excerpt:
TLDR: To use a phone with a local provider, apparently you have to register the phones IMEI. If someone tried to import a large number of iPhones illegally, it would pretty quickly be noticed by Indonesian authorities.
This is the future for cohesive nations. Start getting used to it.
It’s a good thing that the lawyers are busy lawyering instead of designing products.
Yes, it is bad policy. It won’t significantly alter the lives of any but a few who are well-connected to the Indonesian government. Indonesia would be better served to develop an economic advantage than to pass laws hoping someone else gives them free money.
Yeah, its complicated. Capitalism is indeed a flawed system and it encourages monopolies which can become bigger than nation states. States regulate to rein in the abusive bits of capitalism they don't like, sometimes with good reason, sometimes to score political points. It is what it is, but forcing a company which manufactures elsewhere to pay up skews the system even further, and everyone loses. It just becomes a tariff, and tariffs fail everyone. So if more countries do it, more mess will result. Consumers will pay more, and sellers will avoid the country altogether or play one country off against another for freebies until a third country has a tantrum and ratchets things up even further.
