China Bans Government Purchase of Selected Apple Products

[unokitty]

CNET

The reported reason? Security concerns.

A major ban in China could potentially affect Apple. Including consumer and business purchases, the country accounted for about 16 percent of Apple's $37.4 billion in overall sales last quarter, according to Bloomberg.

Computerworld - China's government, which earlier banned Windows 8 from agencies' computers, has dropped Apple's notebooks and tablets from an approved list of purchases, according to Bloomberg News today.

... Bloomberg reported that 10 Apple products -- including the iPad Air, iPad Mini, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro -- had been dropped from July's procurement list...

Apple has pinned growth hopes on the China market. Last quarter, Apple's Greater China region -- which includes the People's Republic, Hong Kong and Taiwan -- accounted for 16% of all revenue, an increase of 28% over the same period the year before.

How the NSA Hurts Our Economy, Cybersecurity, and Foreign Policy

The U.S. cloud computing industry—a fast-growing and American-dominated market—could lose anywhere from $22 billion to $180 billion in the next few years as companies lose customers abroad and here at home. U.S. tech companies are facing declines in overseas sales due to the backlash, while foreign governments are blaming the NSA for decisions to drop American companies from huge contracts, as we’ve witnessed with Boeing in Brazil and Verizon in Germany.

NSA actions hurting Apple sales? Who'da thunk it?

Anyone feeling more secure now?

Uno

 

[waggy]

great. maybe tech companies wills tand up to them instead of letting the government fuck us in the ass

 

[SandEagle]

NSA can suck it. my iPhone 6 better not be delayed

 

[Strk]

Maybe an unwillingness to let the Chinese government add stuff to their products?

 

[Pulsar]

This has absolutely nothing to do with the NSA. Not a thing.

This is about China having the industrial capacity and intentionally restricting the sale of US goods to hurt US companies. The offshoot of which will be a Chinese companies with stolen technology producing analogues and selling those to the Chinese government.

The NSA baloney is merely a convenient method to lob another grenade in the trade war we've been in with China for the last 30 years.