Report: China bans iPhone use by government officials

07 September 2023
The ban also likely extends to other devices from foreign brands.

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  • 22 Sep 2023

NeonHD, 09 Sep 2023iPhone for the plebs. Android for the government elites. I ... moreAnd the fact that Apple phones have a high risk of leaking personal data when using VPNs

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    • Sin
    • TqI
    • 21 Sep 2023

    There definitely right I can confirm iPhone is a security risk I have had iPhone spy on me secretly using the camera do not trust apple at all

    Apple is full of us backdoors and spyware it can record you then change screen overlay and look completely normal when you try too show someone else proof

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      • Sin
      • TqI
      • 21 Sep 2023

      100% agree iPhone is us spyware and security risk the voice assistant spy on you also not too mention artificial slowing down of performance on purpose built-in backdoors even locked out of your own phone is a real thing brands do too people

      Even if a third party internet security program was used like 360 internet security it's doubtful you're database is safe because well the app still have too follows the rules of the Very strict and very stubborn apple app store

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        • Casio
        • ssT
        • 20 Sep 2023

        The Chinese authorities have already claimed this is fabricated news, but kudos to Gsmarena to spread it as fast as you can without verifying!

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          • Iby
          • 14 Sep 2023

          Equatorial Guinea has their service people use iPhone 8 and they have the best infrastructure in all of Africa, meanwhile Somalia and Ethiopia issue their employees Samsung Galaxy A01 Cores and all they do is get distracted on radio FM

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            • Anonymous
            • 7L2
            • 11 Sep 2023

            LMFAO. Look at who's talking

              Nice joke

                iPhone for the plebs. Android for the government elites. I can dig that.

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                  • Anonymous
                  • YT1
                  • 09 Sep 2023

                  Anonymous, 09 Sep 2023True but Nokia didn't build a cult back then. Steve Jo... moreWith China banning them . It maybe the start of the fall

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                    • 09 Sep 2023

                    SonyXperia, 07 Sep 202315 series is around the corner, this is going to have a gre... moreAn independent subsidy for China. Like Apple China. 1

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                      • Anonymous
                      • IWP
                      • 09 Sep 2023

                      Anonymous, 08 Sep 2023I know it's not that easy, but all big tech-giants sho... moreSometimes people make it in China not only cos it's cheap but cos their skills and supply chain is so tightly integrated, it's hard to replicate in another country. China also make it attractive to manufacture it there else why would companies risk the technology transfer just to do business with them.

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                        • Anonymous
                        • IWP
                        • 09 Sep 2023

                        Anonymous, 08 Sep 2023People who thinks iPhone is to show off your status is fina... morePeople who didn't think so are also show off.

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                          • IWP
                          • 09 Sep 2023

                          Ray, 09 Sep 2023We said the same about Nokia...True but Nokia didn't build a cult back then. Steve Jobs understand people's perception of luxury and in troubled times, only the rich can afford things. That's why even in a bad economy it's hard for Apple to fall.

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                            • 09 Sep 2023

                            Anonymous, 07 Sep 2023Scary comment. The sales of Apple and Samsung goes down to ... moreWe said the same about Nokia...

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                              • 08 Sep 2023

                              Anonymous, 08 Sep 2023Impossible, chinese are socially concious race, they loved ... morePeople who thinks iPhone is to show off your status is financially illiterate

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                                • Anonymous
                                • U{v
                                • 08 Sep 2023

                                Small step before the giant step

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • x{6
                                  • 08 Sep 2023

                                  Impossible, chinese are socially concious race, they loved branded products especially the luxury brands. Apple products are considered luxury in china. Carrying an iphone will upped your status in their society. Even huawei executives especially the CFO used iphone and macbook during her travel to canada.

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                                    • 08 Sep 2023

                                    Rev Prof Dr Captain , 08 Sep 2023Ban them completely from the country so that price will com... morelol there price wont come down for anything and if they lose a lot of market then the price would just go up rather then down. And the prices wont go down for specially Africans. Like since when Apple is charity brand ? They move there factories to Africa so there building product cost go down and they can add 100 on there new model price

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • mip
                                      • 08 Sep 2023

                                      I know it's not that easy, but all big tech-giants should move their production out of china as fast as possible. We all rely on chinas cheap laborship, that *surprise* wont last forever! China will at some point recognize that their prices are way too low and raise them. If you got a production line over there, thats a bad thing.
                                      That said, are people willing to pay around 20% more for a phone made in the US or europe? Is that even possible? Even the most fair-paid phone in the world, the fairphone 5 is made in china....that's just horrible.

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                                        • 08 Sep 2023

                                        Ban them completely from the country so that price will come down Africans to afford locally.