Over a billion potential customers with just a single localized version. A sixth of the world’s population. It’s almost three times the European market in terms of population size, and the latter needs over 20 different language versions, with an even greater number of different jurisdictions to comply with.
Considering china’s desire of control it has less to do with Ai capabilities and more about control
What's the market size like when you factor in people's ability to spend the kind of money required for an Apple phone in the first place and the fact that several homegrown corporations make competitive products which are apparently also pushed by their own government I wonder.
It'd not rocket science. Not only can they manufacture cheaply. China buys over 1/4 of the iPhones produced each year + app sales.
Apple has roughly 15% market share in China, which is nothing to scoff at, certainly in absolute numbers. Around 15% of Apple’s global revenue is from China (same number by coincidence).
Is there really? Something more that you're privy to besides the terrible rules of engagement of which we're all aware? Otherwise, it sounds like you're promoting a conspiracy theory. And it's ironic the day after GM takes a major hit on its China stake.
Well, it could have something to do with China having around 18% of the world’s population. And probably more than 18% of the world’s tech savvy customers
Let me correct that, “has partnered with the CCP who will steal everything you got, then produce the same thing unders a different state sponsored company” ahhh capitalism using your own greed against you.
Apple is struggling to work with Chinese tech company Baidu to bring Apple Intelligence to China next year, The Information reports.
While it is now available in the United States and several other regions, Apple Intelligence is not available in China due to the country's restrictive security, privacy, and content obligations, which demands that any public AI technology obtains regulatory approval. This led Apple to partner directly with Baidu, a Chinese company, to deliver Apple Intelligence features in the country expediently.
Citing two individuals said to be familiar with the situation, the report claims that Apple and Baidu are racing to adapt the latter's most advanced large language model, Ernie 4.0, to work well for iPhone users both via the cloud and on-device. Apparently, the models have had difficulty understanding prompts and providing accurate responses to common scenarios.
While Baidu wants results to be driven by data used to train its model, Apple wants it to provide a more personalized answer based on a user's iPhone usage. Likewise, the two companies have clashed over the use of iPhone user data to train and improve the AI models. Baidu reportedly wants to save and analyze data from iPhone users, but this is forbidden under Apple's privacy commitments.
The issues are particularly notable since Apple hopes to use Apple Intelligence to rejuvenate iPhone sales in China, where revenue has declined for three consecutive years due to heightened competition from local smartphone brands such as Huawei that tout a wide array of AI features.
Unlike its collaboration with OpenAI, which reportedly comes at no cost to either company, Apple is actively paying Baidu a fee to use its AI models and has agreed to cover computing costs. Apple already uses Baidu for default search results in Safari and Siri.
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Large market size, China subsidizes manufacturing
Early on, cheap labor was the draw but, over time, so much manufacturing and technology was developed there and the skills were built up. The raw materials are refined there. All of the components are manufactured there. There are suppliers for everything you need to build a product. That is a major center of the high tech industry.
Cheap labor sure, but massively educated workforce with high unemployment. Add those to the huge market that China has and it’s easy to see why Apple & other American companies go there.
Baidu is playing China’s hand. If they want to collect data from iPhone users they sure as hell are already doing it with TikTok users.
They are basically doing that.
It just started. Give it some time to improve.
They are already doing that with every iCloud data for Chinese customers (stored in Chinese servers).
That has always been the white elephant in the room with any company dealing with China. Companies like Apple thought as long as they provided decent or close to decent jobs to Chinese workers, the Chinese government would make sure the gears of industry were well greased. The relationship has become more complicated since Apple decided that China should be more than just their factory. I have to believe that at some point in the future, Apple will come to a decision to withdraw either partially or completely from China. Apple has accepted the role of subordinate in this relationship for a long time and it has been very lucrative for them. However, I can see Apple tiring of this suboptimal “partnership” to the degree that they decide to call it quits in China. Unless of course communism goes “away” over there.
