Apple Facing Struggle to Convince Chinese Smartphone Users to Switch Allegiance [Updated]

[Solomani]

China is a lost cause for Apple. They generally are the most nationalist consumers

Yes. And remember a few months ago when South Korea agreed to install the US THAAD missiles, the Chinese Government launched an anti-SK campaign, which seems to be doing some harm to Samsung's (and other South Korean) business in China. The vicious nationalism is instigated by the Chinese Government itself.

Sure China is a large market and opportunity, but the Chinese and their government can turn on you on a dime.

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[5105973]

Yes. And remember a few months ago when South Korea agreed to install the US THAAD missiles, the Chinese Government launched an anti-SK campaign, which seems to be doing some harm to Samsung's (and other South Korean) business in China. The vicious nationalism is instigated by the Chinese Government itself.

Sure China is a large market and opportunity, but the Chinese and their government can turn on you on a dime.

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It is a very tricky thing, doing business with China and sharing or exposing so much of our technology there, because of national security concerns. They of course have similar concerns doing business with us. We definitely are strange bedfellows. Let's just hope our mutual interdependence on each other in business keeps us more or less friendly and our nukes dormant.

 

[TechZeke]

This has partially to do as well with how easier it is for local vendors to offer their products compared to foreign companies. The western world should have never sold anything over there, they have stolen so much IP that the day is near where only Chinese companies will be allowed to offer goods and services.

When Apple is building millions of iPhones in China every year, it should be no surprise that the Chinese know how build good smartphones at cheaper prices. Just the fact that iPhone gets leaked so much every year should make this obvious.

 

[atmenterprises]

Because prise (pull away) is correct and pry (snoop) is incorrect? Maybe that's why.

Except pry has more than one commonly-used meaning that is applicable to this situation.

 

[ErikGrim]

QR codes are pretty popular in China for mobile payments and such due to the advancement of the smartphone coming before the popularization of credit card or card payment terminals.

"Pretty popular" is underselling it. China practically runs on QR codes:

http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/08/technology/china-qr-codes/index.html
[doublepost=1505092748][/doublepost]Stalling China-losses may also be the reason the 7S generation was skipped in favour of calling the non-X iPhones iPhone 8 this year as 8 is considered the luckiest number there.