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Tim Cook Visits China to Discuss Market Growth, Low-Cost iPhone with Carriers?
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It invokes what is known as Betteridge's Law.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
Simply put...
"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
That's not what I hear about China...Does China's Materialistic Image Really Represent Most Chinese?
Who’s more materialistic, the US or China?
What Chinese Consumers Want:
Don't know why this dialog came to me from the pic:
Tim: "Hey gurl!"
Man on left: "Gurl, you looking fierce!"
Tim: "I know, right?? Tom hooked me up, won't be out till Gucci's Fall line."
Man on left: "Werq! Is that suede?"
Tim: "It's a suede Alpaca blend. Ah-mazing!"
Man on left: "You ready to talk biz-nass? Got some fierce eats and drinks that'll knock your Paul Smith shoes off."
Tim: "Hey gurl!"
Man on left: "Gurl, you looking fierce!"
Tim: "I know, right?? Tom hooked me up, won't be out till Gucci's Fall line."
Man on left: "Werq! Is that suede?"
Tim: "It's a suede Alpaca blend. Ah-mazing!"
Man on left: "You ready to talk biz-nass? Got some fierce eats and drinks that'll knock your Paul Smith shoes off."
Yeah the sleep button on my 5 has been on the fritz for a good 2 months now. I'll probably take it in before the year runs out.
The guy on the left was uber intimidated by Cook. He's wiping his sweaty hand on his pants before he dares to shake Tim's hand.
Tim is wiping Chinese a$$ again...
he seems to care more about this market than others...
of course, over a billion potential customers
the rest of the world is just like third world for Tim
Could I ask what country you are from?
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The Chinese can be VERY into material goods and status symbols. Remember that Chinese boy who sold his kidney for an iPad?
iPhone 5C
Seriously.... I think that 5C is 5 Colours/Colors. Elementary. I guess the "rainbow" effect will be popular at the next mardi gra!
Seriously.... I think that 5C is 5 Colours/Colors. Elementary. I guess the "rainbow" effect will be popular at the next mardi gra!
What China Mobile and thus China wants: TD-LTE support
The Chinese are trying to explain exactly what they want in clear language:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2013-07/03/content_16716093.htm
"With the rapid development of mobile data services and the increasing scarcity of radio spectrum resources, TDD technology is destined to become the development trend of mobile communication. However, compared to LTE FDD, the TD-LTE at current stage lags far behind in terms of both commercial development and global influence."
They want TD-LTE to become an equal competitor to FDD-LTE so that their companies such as Huawei can go forth and do business in emerging markets as the world transitions to LTE and then LTE Advanced over the next few decades. It appears to me the Chinese copied the US tactic of having a major telecom, China Mobile for them, Verizon for the US, use a standard almost no one else does, and then leverage backwards compatibility with that standard, TD-SCDMA for China Mobile and CDMA for Verizon, to promote local companies, Huawei and others for China, Qualcomm for the US.
In theory the Qualcomm baseband chipsets iPhones have have support for TD-SCDMA and TD-LTE. But I doubt the Chinese would wish to have a de facto Qualcomm monopoly occur for LTE baseband chips.
I assert Apple won't be allowed officially on China Mobile until they put a Chinese LTE baseband chipset into a version of the iPhone. Thus the deadlock.
There is one more card for China to play. They are apparently experimenting with relaxing currency controls on certain foreign companies:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100556006
Observe which foreign companies are on the list so far: "They are Shell, Samsung, Intel Inc, Alcatel-Lucent , Schneider Electric and Caterpillar Inc ."
Observe that Apple is not on the list. Until China says otherwise, the money Apple makes in China stays in China.
The Chinese are trying to explain exactly what they want in clear language:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2013-07/03/content_16716093.htm
"With the rapid development of mobile data services and the increasing scarcity of radio spectrum resources, TDD technology is destined to become the development trend of mobile communication. However, compared to LTE FDD, the TD-LTE at current stage lags far behind in terms of both commercial development and global influence."
They want TD-LTE to become an equal competitor to FDD-LTE so that their companies such as Huawei can go forth and do business in emerging markets as the world transitions to LTE and then LTE Advanced over the next few decades. It appears to me the Chinese copied the US tactic of having a major telecom, China Mobile for them, Verizon for the US, use a standard almost no one else does, and then leverage backwards compatibility with that standard, TD-SCDMA for China Mobile and CDMA for Verizon, to promote local companies, Huawei and others for China, Qualcomm for the US.
In theory the Qualcomm baseband chipsets iPhones have have support for TD-SCDMA and TD-LTE. But I doubt the Chinese would wish to have a de facto Qualcomm monopoly occur for LTE baseband chips.
I assert Apple won't be allowed officially on China Mobile until they put a Chinese LTE baseband chipset into a version of the iPhone. Thus the deadlock.
There is one more card for China to play. They are apparently experimenting with relaxing currency controls on certain foreign companies:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100556006
Observe which foreign companies are on the list so far: "They are Shell, Samsung, Intel Inc, Alcatel-Lucent , Schneider Electric and Caterpillar Inc ."
Observe that Apple is not on the list. Until China says otherwise, the money Apple makes in China stays in China.
False news
Can not be true. Watch the picture and what people dressed up in it---it is hot summer now in China!
Can not be true. Watch the picture and what people dressed up in it---it is hot summer now in China!
Why people in China likes to use Samsung? I think it's just... natural. I think Samsung learned their strategy from the Chinese but somehow they executed better and have better technological resources. I don't mean to say that Chinese people are copycats. I never intended to!
In China, the weather is hot and humid (been that way since May). Why are they all wearing jackets?
Have you been to China lately? It's not 1960s China anymore ...
At least in the cities, everyone wants the latest gadgets or cell phones. That over 700 million consumers - and at least 400 million+ are probably middle class and upwards!
Numbers in China are just staggering in comparison...