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Apple CEO Tim Cook Visits China Amid Reports of Lower iPhone 15 Sales
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Both statements can be accurate at the same time. Can have an increase in people switching to iPhone while also having a decrease in return consumers aka people not upgrading.
Well a competitive product where it is sold anyway.
The big point worth considering though is Huawei does not use iOS or Android. It is using HarmonyOS.
Not really a concern since everyone in China uses WeChat. It’s how you pay for literally everything from food, to gas to utilities to reading your child’s report card. Apple has an online store in WeChat.
But it might be a concern for anyone outside of China considering a Huawei device.
Of course not. That's silly.
CEOs of large companies with massive global reach frequently visit other countries to personally and first-hand get a better understanding of important markets.
It's part of their job. Happens all the time.
Mate 60 Pro sells for less than $999 and offers 512GB base storage. You don’t have to be a “patriot” to realize it’s a better value.
If you want CPU performance, Apple wins for sure. If you want better cellular performance and satellite voice features, Huawei beats Apple + Qualcomm.
Hopefully he's there to let them know that Apple will be phasing out their presence in China over the next few years.
If you actually did a modicum of research of the top Chinese Android phones, you'd see that there are not many similarities to iPhone, and of the reviews I've watched various places, Chinese phones show more innovation than the annual iPhone spec-bump new models. Apple seems to have run out of ideas or it takes them 5 years to "get it right".
Tim travels to China to see how they can re-purpose iPhone 15 Pro production line to make pocket warmers.
I’m glad you said that. Like so many others, I enjoy reading tech articles in general including those about Apple products of course. I notice more and more that article headlines are all about the mystery feature I don’t know about or the secret setting I have to change immediately.
I find myself skipping more and more articles. Why just the other day I skipped so many articles I had time to go outside. The natural light hurt my eyes.
It's only a better deal if not being part of Apple's ecosystem isn't a biggie, and you're OK running on HarmonyOS.
I'll pass.
Probably also meeting with local executives to talk strategy. This was just the public facing part which, yes, was trying to use his celebrity to drum up attention for the phone.
I didn't say that. Having social media "flooded" (MR words) with comments about the "poor quality" of the iPhone 15 images is not objective. There is no way Apple was sharing "poor quality" images (someone else linked the image in this thread -- it wasn't "poor quality", even if there were some compression issues [which could have been a Weibo issue]). This means much of the comments are from state-sponsored bot accounts and/or nationalists who don't like "Western" companies and/or people/bots who don't like Apple or whatever else is driving their behavior. I'm not sure what's controversial about acknowledging that? Just look at MacRumors. There are plenty of people who sign up for accounts or comment on MR mainly to attack Apple over various things.
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Strong/compelling photographs that move a viewer come from the photographer. Not from a piece of gear.
Thanks for actually sharing the photo in question. Neither 9to5mac or this website thought to include it.
I think the photo looks fine. I‘ve seen better and worse. Like they say, the best camera is the one you have with you.
the accountant that won't bring jobs in mass back to USA. the notion that there is lack of finding workers in USA, I do not buy at all. Too many people are looking for jobs and corporations are continually employing robots and self checkouts using the false excuse of not finding workers. Yes, workers should be paid living wages at least. But the accountant does not believe that as he is beholden to more $ for the overlords for which he is part of.
As a Chinese person myself, their tactic is to make a new camera geometric design
For Huawei mate series, it have 4 lenses in mate 40,50 and 60. What they did is to rearrange the 4 lenses and add some black decorative strips and change a little each time. others do the same, they put the lenses into triangles, rectangles, 4 in a row…… Chinese people liked these
Chinese people say that Apple does not innovate because they think the camera arrangement look similar in iPhone 13 14 15 (standard diagonal/ Pro 3 in a squrare)
But I have to admit that Chinese phones have much better spec bumps every year, but these spec bumps are mostly useless. (Now they have 24G ram, but the badly utilized and designed apps like WeChat devour them quickly)
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