Apple loses its shine in China
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this is good news- push the foreign brands out, then eventually- take the fight all the way to their market itself. I expect American protectionist policies/tariffs to prevent that, though.
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Iphone is not a high-end phone that few people in China can afford````its biggest market was in China, until last year...as more and more high/middle-end alternatives from local brands emerging and taking apple's share
but as for me running an IT company and and an Iphone user, I have to say, the apple's biggest advantage is also its disadvantage
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i have iphone 4 but switched to China phone. No regrets. Iphone 4 slow as hell. I hate the IOS. lack of apps.
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Every form of economic patriotism is fine. Adding moral premise to it is just better.
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Hospital bans use of Apple's new cell phones
By Wu Jin
China.org.cn, September 30, 2016
A gynecological hospital in Chongqing has banned its doctors and nurses from using Apple's latest smart iPhone 7 series, saying the prohibition was based on monetary concerns.
"The administrative office of the hospital has decided not to allow any staff members to buy the iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 plus. Anyone who insists on purchasing one will be removed from candidacy for annual rewards of outstanding performances. And for those who could not afford an iPhone 7 cell phone but still bought one will be asked to resign," a latest circular issued by the hospital said.
According to the circular, the boycott of Apple's newest creation was due to its high cost, which far exceeds the prices of other smart phones.
"With the 67th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China approaching, the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 plus have been priced unprecedentedly high, which corrupts people with extravagant spending and contaminates the virtue of frugal living," the circular explained.
The circular has gone viral on the Internet and was confirmed from Chongqing's Fuling Xinjiuzhou Gynecological Hospital, even though the president of the hospital cannot be reached, Chongqing Times reported.
It was not the first time for an employer to ban their staff members from owning Apple's latest smart phones.
Several days ago, a company in Henan Province forbade its employees to buy the iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 plus, saying it's better to contribute their savings to improve their family lives rather than spending them on such luxuries.
Apple released the iPhone 7, a handset with single camera lens, and the iPhone 7 plus, with double lenses, earlier this month, and their starting prices are approximately 5,388 yuan (US$808.06) and 6,388 yuan respectively on the Chinese market.
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Hospital bans use of Apple's new cell phones
By Wu Jin
China.org.cn, September 30, 2016
A gynecological hospital in Chongqing has banned its doctors and nurses from using Apple's latest smart iPhone 7 series, saying the prohibition was based on monetary concerns.
"The administrative office of the hospital has decided not to allow any staff members to buy the iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 plus. Anyone who insists on purchasing one will be removed from candidacy for annual rewards of outstanding performances. And for those who could not afford an iPhone 7 cell phone but still bought one will be asked to resign," a latest circular issued by the hospital said.
According to the circular, the boycott of Apple's newest creation was due to its high cost, which far exceeds the prices of other smart phones.
"With the 67th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China approaching, the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 plus have been priced unprecedentedly high, which corrupts people with extravagant spending and contaminates the virtue of frugal living," the circular explained.
The circular has gone viral on the Internet and was confirmed from Chongqing's Fuling Xinjiuzhou Gynecological Hospital, even though the president of the hospital cannot be reached, Chongqing Times reported.
It was not the first time for an employer to ban their staff members from owning Apple's latest smart phones.
Several days ago, a company in Henan Province forbade its employees to buy the iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 plus, saying it's better to contribute their savings to improve their family lives rather than spending them on such luxuries.
Apple released the iPhone 7, a handset with single camera lens, and the iPhone 7 plus, with double lenses, earlier this month, and their starting prices are approximately 5,388 yuan (US$808.06) and 6,388 yuan respectively on the Chinese market.
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Check the news, iPhone7 explodes.
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Why burn dollars for iphone in 500 dollars u cam get a decent amdroid phone plus a tablet
What about sony phone popularity in chinaApple loses shine among fans in China
Global Times, Sept. 19, 2016
Two days after the launch of new iPhone products in Beijing, fans lined up outside of an Apple store in the city's downtown area, but iPhone scalpers said that those customers are less enthusiastic about the gadgets compared with previous years.
Customers had to make an online reservation before lining up outside the Apple store in Beijing's Sanlitun shopping area to purchase iPhone 7 smartphones, which debuted on Friday. A dozen iPhone scalpers waiting on the other side of the building asked those who had just picked up their preordered iPhone 7 gadgets to resell them, earning about 1,000 yuan ($150) each.
"Due to the lack of inventory in the store, some people may want to pay more for these new products, as it will take a long time for them to wait for the arrival of preordered ones," a iPhone scalper, who only gave his surname as Wang, told the Global Times outside the store on Sunday.
The company's press representatives in China did not respond to a request by the Global Times concerning the store's inventory of iPhone 7s in Beijing as of press time on Sunday.
As the jet-black iPhone 7 Plus is favored by more people for its look and its two cameras, which provide a depth of field effect, it is the most in-demand product now, Wang said.
"We resell it at 20,000 yuan each and fans may accept the price because it is impossible to buy in the store right now," he said.
This product is priced at 7,188 yuan with 128 GB and 7,988 yuan with 256 GB on Apple's official website, which said phones will be delivered in November.
It is quite normal for iPhone scalpers raise the prices for the new iPhones because of low inventories in stores, which can't meet demand immediately after the iPhone 7 products were unveiled, Liu Dingding, a Beijing-based independent industry analyst, told the Global Times on Sunday.
"But there will be fewer iPhone scalpers who make a profit through reselling those products in a month," Liu predicted.
Also, fewer fans have lined up for the new products this year, compared with years before, iPhone scalpers outside the store told the Global Times.
A 25-year-old man surnamed Zhang spent few minutes listening to an employee in the Apple store making a presentation of the iPhone 7, and left without preordering anything online.
"The only new feature attractive to me is the camera system of the iPhone 7 Plus, but I am not ready to buy," Zhang said.
Still, some customers who ordered the new products online said they did so because they are regular users of Apple products.
A lack of innovation has become a major hurdle for Apple to gain market share in China, especially when domestic brands have been rising in recent years, Liu noted.
"The reduced enthusiasm for the new iPhone 7 products shows Chinese buyers are becoming more rational, and they also have more choices," Liu said.
The top domestic smartphone vendors, Huawei, OPPO and Vivo, had 46.6 percent of China's smartphone market in the second quarter of 2016, which reflects their brand-building efforts and aggressive marketing strategies, International Data Corp (IDC) said in a report released in August.
Meanwhile, Apple continued to decline in terms of its shipment volumes, according to the report.
With 19.1 million units shipped, Huawei was the No.1 vendor in the Chinese market, holding a 17.2 percent share in the second quarter of 2016, the IDC report noted.
Next came OPPO and Vivo, which reported 18 million and 14.7 million units shipped, respectively. They held market shares of 16.2 percent and 13.2 percent. Apple, which recorded 8.6 million units shipped during this period, was ranked fifth after Chinese tech firm Xiaomi, according to the report.
The crackdown on parallel goods trading activities in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong Province, neighboring Hong Kong, kicked off after the new iPhone products were unveiled. The local customs confiscated about 400 iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus phones, worth more than 3 million yuan, according to Guangzhou Daily on Sunday.
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'Piece of crap': Apple hit with proposed class action lawsuits over iPhone 'touch disease'
It's known as "touch disease," an affliction of Apple's iPhone 6 and 6 Plus models where the smartphone freezes up and won't respond to touch commands.
And now Apple is facing proposed class-action lawsuits in both Canada and the U.S., alleging the California-based tech giant knew about the defect and failed to take action.
"As they began to have more and more complaints and people were going to them — and we've had significant numbers of people contact us — they brushed it under the rug," claims Regina lawyer Tony Merchant.
In September, Merchant's firm, Merchant Law Group, filed two class actions against Apple, one Canada-wide and one solely for Quebec residents.
The proposed suit, filed at the Court of Queen's Bench for Saskatchewan, would include all Canadian iPhone 6 and 6 Plus customers. It alleges that Apple was negligent because it supplied a defective phone, "knowingly and intentionally concealed" from customers the defect and failed to provide a proper remedy.
Merchant claims the most Apple has done for customers is offer to resolve the problem for a price — around $300.
Apple declined to comment on any of the suits, which have yet to be certified in court.
'A piece of crap'
"You miss calls, you can't text, it's a horrible piece of crap," says Trina Rae Wiegers, the lead plaintiff in the cross-Canada suit.
Shortly after the product was launched in 2014, Wiegers bought the iPhone 6 in Prince Albert, Sask., where she lives. She paid about $200 — hundreds of dollars less than the regular price because she locked into a two-year phone plan contract.
Wiegers claims that earlier this year, a few months after the warranty had expired, her phone began to intermittently freeze up and wouldn't respond to touch commands.
"It's frustrating as hell because you're missing phone calls from your kids. I have three kids. I use it for work," says Wiegers, who's employed with the city of Prince Albert.
The suit alleges that that the underlying problem is the touchscreen controller chips in the phone's motherboard, which are not properly secured and can malfunction with regular use.
Not Apple's problem?
Wiegers says she contacted Apple numerous times about her defective phone and never got a satisfactory response.
She shared with CBC News a transcript of her online chat in August with senior adviser "Dave" from Apple Support.
In the transcript, Wiegers explained her problem, mentioned that she had read numerous similar complaints online, and even sent Dave a link to a recent blog from an online repair guide, iFixit. The blog labelled the problem "Touch Disease," and claimed that iPhone repair shops in the U.S. were being inundated with customers looking for fixes for the defect.
Dave responded that he had no information that the problem was "known to be a manufacturing issue from Apple."
He also reminded Wiegers that her warranty had expired and that she'd have to get the phone repaired. He recommended that she visit the Apple feedback site where she could "tell engineering to look into it." He signed off with a
happy face.
"I just about felt like throwing my phone through the screen at him," says Wiegers.
U.S. also takes on Apple
In the United States, a similar proposed class action was filed in August in the U.S. District Court for Northern California. It alleges that "Apple has long been aware of the defective iPhones" and refused to repair them without charge.
The three lead plaintiffs in the case all allege that their iPhone 6 or 6 plus suddenly froze up and that Apple wanted upwards of $300 US to remedy the problem.
Apple's supposed "Bendgate" problem may be at the root of the alleged iPhone issues, says Troy Crandall, equity analyst at 3Macs in Montreal.
Shortly after the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus launched, people started complaining that the phone was susceptible to bending.
Crandall says the early 6 models have a bigger, thinner design which could make them more pliable.
"People tend to put them in their pants and the human body does bend," he says.
Crandall suggests the bending could fracture connections within the phone's motherboard, causing it to malfunction.
He says that Apple gets numerous complaints about technical glitches so, unless the company offers more details, it's impossible to know the scope and severity of the problem.
The proposed class actions claim the issue is serious enough to demand that Apple pay damages that include compensation for a defective phone.
"All I want is for Apple to fix my damn phone," says Wiegers.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/piece-crap-apple-hit-proposed-090000778.html
It's known as "touch disease," an affliction of Apple's iPhone 6 and 6 Plus models where the smartphone freezes up and won't respond to touch commands.
And now Apple is facing proposed class-action lawsuits in both Canada and the U.S., alleging the California-based tech giant knew about the defect and failed to take action.
"As they began to have more and more complaints and people were going to them — and we've had significant numbers of people contact us — they brushed it under the rug," claims Regina lawyer Tony Merchant.
In September, Merchant's firm, Merchant Law Group, filed two class actions against Apple, one Canada-wide and one solely for Quebec residents.
The proposed suit, filed at the Court of Queen's Bench for Saskatchewan, would include all Canadian iPhone 6 and 6 Plus customers. It alleges that Apple was negligent because it supplied a defective phone, "knowingly and intentionally concealed" from customers the defect and failed to provide a proper remedy.
Merchant claims the most Apple has done for customers is offer to resolve the problem for a price — around $300.
Apple declined to comment on any of the suits, which have yet to be certified in court.
'A piece of crap'
"You miss calls, you can't text, it's a horrible piece of crap," says Trina Rae Wiegers, the lead plaintiff in the cross-Canada suit.
Shortly after the product was launched in 2014, Wiegers bought the iPhone 6 in Prince Albert, Sask., where she lives. She paid about $200 — hundreds of dollars less than the regular price because she locked into a two-year phone plan contract.
Wiegers claims that earlier this year, a few months after the warranty had expired, her phone began to intermittently freeze up and wouldn't respond to touch commands.
"It's frustrating as hell because you're missing phone calls from your kids. I have three kids. I use it for work," says Wiegers, who's employed with the city of Prince Albert.
The suit alleges that that the underlying problem is the touchscreen controller chips in the phone's motherboard, which are not properly secured and can malfunction with regular use.
Not Apple's problem?
Wiegers says she contacted Apple numerous times about her defective phone and never got a satisfactory response.
She shared with CBC News a transcript of her online chat in August with senior adviser "Dave" from Apple Support.
In the transcript, Wiegers explained her problem, mentioned that she had read numerous similar complaints online, and even sent Dave a link to a recent blog from an online repair guide, iFixit. The blog labelled the problem "Touch Disease," and claimed that iPhone repair shops in the U.S. were being inundated with customers looking for fixes for the defect.
Dave responded that he had no information that the problem was "known to be a manufacturing issue from Apple."
He also reminded Wiegers that her warranty had expired and that she'd have to get the phone repaired. He recommended that she visit the Apple feedback site where she could "tell engineering to look into it." He signed off with a
happy face."I just about felt like throwing my phone through the screen at him," says Wiegers.
U.S. also takes on Apple
In the United States, a similar proposed class action was filed in August in the U.S. District Court for Northern California. It alleges that "Apple has long been aware of the defective iPhones" and refused to repair them without charge.
The three lead plaintiffs in the case all allege that their iPhone 6 or 6 plus suddenly froze up and that Apple wanted upwards of $300 US to remedy the problem.
Apple's supposed "Bendgate" problem may be at the root of the alleged iPhone issues, says Troy Crandall, equity analyst at 3Macs in Montreal.
Shortly after the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus launched, people started complaining that the phone was susceptible to bending.
Crandall says the early 6 models have a bigger, thinner design which could make them more pliable.
"People tend to put them in their pants and the human body does bend," he says.
Crandall suggests the bending could fracture connections within the phone's motherboard, causing it to malfunction.
He says that Apple gets numerous complaints about technical glitches so, unless the company offers more details, it's impossible to know the scope and severity of the problem.
The proposed class actions claim the issue is serious enough to demand that Apple pay damages that include compensation for a defective phone.
"All I want is for Apple to fix my damn phone," says Wiegers.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/piece-crap-apple-hit-proposed-090000778.html
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These are average americans who are planning to launch class action lawsuit against apple. i don't buy apple.
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Apple's iPhone 7 allegedly explodes in China
(CRI Online) October 11, 2016
The exploded rose-gold iPhone 7 of a man from Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province[Photo: The Paper]
While the explosion of Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is not far behind us, a video of an iPhone 7 exploding in China surfaced online on Monday, The Paper reports.
In the video, a man from Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province, said that his rose-gold iPhone 7 suddenly exploded as he was shooting a video with it last week. The phone exploded into two parts and left his hands swollen and his face with some injuries.
Unlike the Galaxy Note 7's explosion, which smoked excessively after burning, this iPhone 7 exploded leaving no burn marks, and the battery remained in good condition.
Apple China reported the incident to its headquarters, says The Paper.
This is the first known iPhone 7 explosion in China, but it was not an isolated incident within the world. An iPhone 6 Plus in California, US, exploded with black smoke as it was charged and completely ruined the phone, the ABC News reported.
Earlier this week, an iPhone 6 Plus belonging to Darina Hlavaty, an American student, burned suddenly during a class, leaving a burnt hole in her jeans.
For now, there is no evidence that these are isolated incidents and will not happen again. Apple Inc has not disclosed the measures it will take to resolve this issue.
(CRI Online) October 11, 2016
The exploded rose-gold iPhone 7 of a man from Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province[Photo: The Paper]
While the explosion of Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is not far behind us, a video of an iPhone 7 exploding in China surfaced online on Monday, The Paper reports.
In the video, a man from Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province, said that his rose-gold iPhone 7 suddenly exploded as he was shooting a video with it last week. The phone exploded into two parts and left his hands swollen and his face with some injuries.
Unlike the Galaxy Note 7's explosion, which smoked excessively after burning, this iPhone 7 exploded leaving no burn marks, and the battery remained in good condition.
Apple China reported the incident to its headquarters, says The Paper.
This is the first known iPhone 7 explosion in China, but it was not an isolated incident within the world. An iPhone 6 Plus in California, US, exploded with black smoke as it was charged and completely ruined the phone, the ABC News reported.
Earlier this week, an iPhone 6 Plus belonging to Darina Hlavaty, an American student, burned suddenly during a class, leaving a burnt hole in her jeans.
For now, there is no evidence that these are isolated incidents and will not happen again. Apple Inc has not disclosed the measures it will take to resolve this issue.
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More such iPhone-related explosions will be heard and reported...
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What the hell man, now phones are doing suicide attacks lol. On a serious note with so much technology being incorporated in such a small body of phones and a bigger battery to take all that load, this is bound to happen. So unless some breakthrough is made in battery technology, phones should be made standard with what there is already. After all a main purpose of any phone is to make a call or send a message. Everything else is just well a luxury.
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