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iPhone Shipments Down 9% in China's Q1 Smartphone Boom
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For example Xiaomi is not low quality, they make a sh*tload of different electronic products and those products are usually bang for $. Go look at latest Oppo flagship (MKBHD video), looks awesome. If Apple Watch was independent product I would try Android phone again.
2015 would like their talking points back.
They probably remove some of the bugs during the copying 😁
In a conversation about China, always remember the Chinese Communist Party pays people(50 cent Army), to hate other country’s products, spread misinformation and lies and harass others who don’t support China. Stay alert!
A new posting from China Observer on YouTube, a very reliable source of News from inside China. Is reporting a sudden and very quiet move of CNC machines out of the Foxconn Fuliang Technology facility in Wuhan. China Observer is reporting sources say Apple, is shifting iPhone 17 production out of China. They didn't say where Vietnam is, the obvious location. This has been in the works for a long time, but the tariff situation has accelerated the move.
Gentle reminder IDC has never been right with shipment numbers in the past 17 years.
I wish some of these phones from Vivo and OPPO were available through cellular carriers in the US!
Personally, I wouldn't want to see any commingling of Apple & Tesla in discussions.
Really different animals, in my view.
Tesla is still deriving like 40% of its profit from regulatory credits.
You are comparing apples to oranges. One thing they do share is their direct competitors in China are receiving significant government subsidies enabling them to undercut price wise. Although they seem to be evaporating everywhere at the moment, free trade and fair markets are rapidly disappearing globally. Consumer preference driven by subsidies and market interference paints a distorted picture and data that does not accurately represent manufacturers. It seems pretty clear a large portion of Apple's lost market share is driven by the subsidies.
I mean I have no interest in anything remotely Android. It’s a terrible Os.
Xiaomi phones look good though. But unfortunately marred by Android
India has given BYD, the Chinese EV maker, the boot because their cars are absolute junk. They are in talks with Tesla to open an assembly plant in India
Sports teams tend to reflect the values and style of their coach.
The same is true here.
This is something I wish Android manufacturers would catch up with Apple. Alas android manufacturers seems focused on adding crazy features that might or might not appeal to users. I don't care for folding phones, but there are millions who do. I don't care about wrap around display, but other do. I require root access, but the vast majority don't care. Choice is good.🤗
Cameras. A lot of Chinese phones have 1" sensors (and comically oversized lens). They have zoom out the wazoo. We've been hearing about telescope zoom from Apple for years now. I doubt they can match the android camera offerings unless they make the iPhone thicker. I like 'em thicc.😘
Do you have any evidence to substantiate that claim?
All I want is the banner that tells me they are connected to go away. Why does it have to pop up so often? I know they are connected, they are in my ears and I am listening to something. Dozens of times a day, I open the phone to do something, while wearing the Airpods, and a chunk of my screen is occluded by the "Airpods Connected" banner. It's often covering something I need to see. . It's like Windows with constant dialogue boxes, or a browser with ad pop-ups, etc. Doesn't the people at Apple use their products and see what is wrong?
There was June article published by Macrumors where the three companies gave their estimates about shipping iPhones or bought iPhones or whatever it was. A small three were off by a huge margin. Clearly we don’t know a “correct” number because Apple doesn’t provide it. Nor do we know the statistical error of these numbers provided by idc.
You can’t prove these numbers are wrong or right.
As someone who went from Android to IOS and then ran screaming back to Android, I wonder how many of the commenters putting Android down have tried a current android phone. IMO Android is far far ahead of IOS (I am running Android 15, wife has IOS 18.4).
For me the value proposition of apple devices is greater than android. Of course YMMV.