Apple Offers Rare iPhone Discounts in China to Counter Sales Slump

[SpotOnT]

We have Chinese medical students often at work, and they almost always carry iPhones. It could be because they are in the US, though. I'll ask next time I talk to one.

Or they are the rich ones.

(Study abroad - and medical school no less - isn’t exactly cheap.)

 

[SpotOnT]

someone tell him the suicide rate in america is over 50% higher

According to the UN - which uses numbers directly from the CCP, I assume - suicide rate in the US is exactly 30% higher for 2019-2022.

 

[picpicmac]

I’m sure I’ll get a bunch of dislikes for this but here we go

So far you have gotten... none.

The world is always changing. The American hegemony is (slowly, very slowly) coming to an end, and with that comes the rise of businesses around the world no longer tied to the US.

This of course is driving part of the xenophobia in American politics, but even setting that aside we need to imagine the year 2050 being, perhaps, when we no longer talk about buying an Apple or Intel-based computer, but some devices made by companies that don't yet exist, headquartered in Asia.

Maybe Mac Rumors can get a jump and make another website: XiaomiRumors???

 

[ybbbbbbb]

The Chinese are upset because iPhone 15 and 15 Plus are made in India. ：p

Don't worry, Apple promised in its official WeChat account.

 

[chineseguy38]

Don't worry, Apple promised in its official WeChat account.View attachment 2337190

That's so unfair to other countries 😂

 

[ybbbbbbb]

That's so unfair to other countries 😂

Apple has been moving its factories to other countries, which is bad news for China. If you still buy a mobile phone made in other countries... Will it feel better... (Samsung lost the Chinese market because of this situation) So Apple just made the right decision

 

[chineseguy38]

Apple has been moving its factories to other countries, which is bad news for China. If you still buy a mobile phone made in other countries... Will it feel better... (Samsung lost the Chinese market because of this situation) So Apple just made the right decision

I was surprised when my friend got a chinese made iPhone 15 in Australia.

 

[theorist9]

Apple hardware stopped advancing. Apple chip awesomeness basically stops at A15. Because A16, A17 are lacklusters when compared to 8Gen2, 8Gen3.

Stuck with 15 PM which is a 14, which is a 13 basically. Same speed,

Do you have numbers from an independent, reputable source to support these claims? And at least based on what I'm seeing on the Geekbench website ( https://browser.geekbench.com/android-benchmarks ), your claims don't appear to be valid (except for the 8 Gen3, where data is not yet posted):

These are the fastest posted CPU phone scores. They show two things:
1) The A-series, contrary to your claims, has continued to advance in performance.
2) Sure, the 8Gen2 can equal or surpass an A-series---the A14 from three years ago!

Now, if you want to instead say that the A15 is so fast relative to what's needed for a phone, that the additional speed of the A16 and A17 don't have an impact on user experience, thus removing that reason to upgrade, that would be a much more plausible argument.

And please don't use AnTuTu to compare iPhone and Android chips, for three reasons:
1) The overall AnTuTu score includes a GPU test. And according to AnTuTu, the Metal/iOS and Vulcan/Android scores are not directly comparable.
2) The AnTuTu memory subscore isn't just memory performance, it also includes memory size.
3) The AnTuTu score has been shown to be hackable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnTuTu

SINGLE-CORE
A17:

A16:

A15:

A14:

8 Gen 2:

MULTI-CORE
A17:

A16:

A15:

8 Gen 2:

A14:

 

[cocoua]

China is about to get the third most popular independent mobile operating system, HarmonyOS4 which may come installed on the Huawei Mate 70 this year. It's RMB12000 for iPhone 15 Pro Max with 512GB storage which currently has a RMB500 discount which is about 4%, which is nothing to write home about.

HarmonyOS4 project was accelerated because all the Trump administration bans.

You get what you sow