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Apple Ordered to Halt iPhone 6 Sales in Beijing Over Patent Infringement Ruling [Updated]
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Joking, right? This is nothing compared to how much money Apple makes in China. Remember, it's their largest market outside of the Americas and has much more potential to growth.
The ruling may be ironclad....if anyone knows anything about patent infringement, it's China....
Umm, hate to break it to you - but we're in no position to negotiate. They hold too much of our debt. Bribe just needs to get bigger.
It worked in the past but I doubt it will work now. China is working on it's own consumer economy and it's in it's best interest to keep competition out. Unfortunately, I think most people still look at China as being the same China from 10 years ago.
I don't understand what's the problem with "My country first". Here in Canada, some complain about "America First" down south, but why wouldn't you put your country first?
Whey I shop, I try (but often fail) to buy local, province, next province, Canada, US/Mexico, then anywhere. It is much easier with food than anything else.
China is so strange. Sometimes they operate like a real country, and then sometimes some random administrator makes up their own rules and shuts an entire company down until they figure out how to smooth things over.
Wait....Samsung gets away with ripping Apple off even closer than this, but Apple is the one at fault when these two phones are compared!? Suuuuuuuure.
The Beijing Intellectual Property Office has ruled that Apple's iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus infringe on the patent rights of another smartphone sold within China -- Shenzhen Baili's 100c device -- leading to the possibility that Apple may have to cease sales of its handset in Beijing completely. Apple is expected to appeal to the Beijing Higher People's Court and the Supreme People's Court in attempts to keep its two handsets in circulation within Beijing.
However, as Bloomberg points out, if the case turns out badly for Apple, lawsuits that the company face in the future could potentially look back at the Shenzhen Baili ruling as a precedent. Beijing has a population of 21.7 million people, so it could have a larger-than-expected negative impact on a territory that Apple has already struggled with in the past.
Just last month, Apple lost the exclusive rights to the name "iPhone" in China, after a ruling by the Beijing Municipal High People's Court favored leather goods maker Xintong Tiandi Technology. Apple has stayed headstrong in a retail rollout plan of new stores and locations for its Chinese users to visit and purchase its products, but the company still faces unexpected roadblocks in the country due to its strict internet policies.
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China is smart, they're looking after the interest of their domestic companies while the idiots over here just outsource everything.
I have no complaints with "My Country First". I'm concerned though since China is a communist country and there are no checks and balances on the worst parts of capitalism or the ends justify the means.
I wonder if Tim Cook wants to turn Apple into a Chinese company and up sticks there.
It wouldn't surprise me.
It wouldn't surprise me.
Nothing wrong with putting your country first - the problem becomes magnified when you expect others - the Chinese - to be as open and transparent as you are. If you're the Chinese and you see Hillary and Justin Trudeau coming your way - do you get frightened or start laughing?
Why yes, yes I do. 1.29 trillion. Guess how much we own of THEIR debt. Last numbers show the US holding around 1 trillion of their debt. Big whoop. It's a global economy. People act as if we should be scared of them. Yeah... no thanks.
Holding debt is the new cold war. No one is going to call it.
another racist movement by china, they will do anything to kick foreign products out o their country
Apple's very clever and very much able to toss a lot more cash on the table to convince China, they'll benefit
It would have been in the past but now it's just Chinese protectionism to keep US companies out of China. China is making its own consumer economy and wants its people to purchase Chinese goods.
I wouldn't call it racist but instead capitalism with no checks and balances.
Suddenly India looked like a viable alternative for manufacturing.
So China has no problem with violating copyright laws of the entire world, but a "violation" (I'm not sure shapes can be patented) of a Chinese patent absolutely cannot stand!!
It's such an interesting dynamic. Apple builds their phones there and then works to sell their phones there but the government fears that Apple is too embedded or involved in their economy? What was that a month ago when the iTunes store was blocked? Apple's number 8 on the government's list of... I don't remember what word they used.
A huge component of China's economy is derived from their export of products to the US. If China does not want to play fair with us, let place an import tax on every product they make! We still hold the cards as we are the biggest consumer of their industrial and labor complex. The problem is no one in our government has the gonadal fortitude to stand up and protect our businesses