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Apple's sales plunged in China — these are the iPhone giant's 5 biggest problems right now (www.cnbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (11 children)

“These high-end devices are not only competitively priced, starting predominantly at 3,999 RMB ($563), but also boast features akin to those found in premium smartphones,” Shah said. “This increased competition exerts pressure on both Apple’s older models and the base models of its new series.”

This is something I noticed. The specs on premium Chinese phones are comparable to flagship Apple or Samsung, but it's half price or less. I don't buy them since the opaque structure around cellphone ownership forces me to use the ones offered by my carrier unless I want to pay extra, but American and South Korean phones are already not competitive. Chinese phones are superior already and the gap's going to keep widening.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (10 children)

I also recall reading a while back how wechat has effectively become the one stop app for most people in China. You talk to friends on it, you make payments through it, you order stuff at restaurants, etc. The ecosystem is the major differentiating factor between different platforms like Android or Apple, but if people are spending most of their time in one app, then this doesn't actually matter all that much. Apple phones were just kind of like getting bling to show off, but now it looks like Huawei is getting popular because people are proud that a Chinese company is able to compete with US ones. So, I expect Apple doesn't really have much prospect in China going forward.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

WeChat makes me think of X in the sense that the idea of an "eevrything" app that the charlatan Musk peddles has already been realised for quite a while in China. I think Kakao stuff in South Korea is similar in scope too but I am just guessing. For some reason Musk chose an extremely strange starting point for this project in Twitter. Now this X project is public facing in the smallest aspect but no idea where it will go from here. The x.com domain literally just does a 302 redirect to the equivalent twitter.com URL.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Every charlatan CEO in the West wants to make Wechat but in America.

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