Apple's iPhone Shipments Plunge in China as Huawei Tightens Grip

Re:Apple's iPhone Shipments Plunge in China as Huawei Tighte... by threeseed on Monday February 11, 2019 @04:20AM (#19133069)

People also forget that they shouldn't speak for a billion odd people. It's a big country with a lot of diversity both culturally and socioeconomically.

The facts we do know are that (a) price affects sales, (b) China has a lot of well made, value focused phones and (c) Apple has already acknowledged their iPhones are expensive.

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Re:Apple's iPhone Shipments Plunge in China as Huawei Tighte... by entity345 on Monday February 11, 2019 @04:22AM (#19133080)

China is extremely homogeneous on the points I raised.

I did not claim that they were the cause of the drop but simply that these are factors that may also be at play.

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Re:Apple's iPhone Shipments Plunge in China as Huawei Tighte... by junket_operator on Monday February 11, 2019 @05:07AM (#19133256)

North is much more patriotic and aligned with the nationalistic one China narrative than the South. If you have lived in the South, you can encounter more ambivalent view.

CPC puts huge effort to maintain the illusion of unity. The recent ramp up effort to suppress Cantonese is just one example. 80 million people (equal to the population of Germany) speaks Cantonese. Overall 400 million Chinese still can't speak Mandarin.

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Re:Apple's iPhone Shipments Plunge in China as Huawei Tighte... by entity345 on Monday February 11, 2019 @05:32AM (#19133396)

I'm living this 'discussion' now.

The reactions to my comment are absolutely appalling.

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