Indonesia bans sale and use of iPhone 16 series
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- 28 Oct 2024
Anonymous, 28 Oct 2024Ban sales is possible. But how to ban people from using?They don't. We can still buy it outside the country then bring it here
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- 28 Oct 2024
Indo-what?
Ah, yes, the country that gets mixed up as part of Malaysia. Oh well, I guess they need the money to move their capital around.
Honestly, no big deal tbh. Indonesia is not a big growing market as India or China. You cant win them all.
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- 28 Oct 2024
Anonymous, 28 Oct 2024no you can't use it. because in Indonesia have signal ... moreAs far as I've understood as a local, it's still legal to use your iPhone a long as it's registered in their system. Indonesian govt. requires us to register our IMEI to Customs ("Bea Cukai" in Indonesian) when bringing the device as handcarry with maximum of 2 devices at a time. It can be done only with our tickets and in someday after you arrived (based on your tickets).
What's not legal is selling iPhone 16 series and Apple Watch 10 series as an authorized seller.
If you're traveling to Indonesia from aboard, you can register your device IMEI to get network access for a certain time. If you're not registering yours, you won't be able to get any cellular signal and have to use WiFi.
And Indonesian system isn't blacklisting, but it uses whitelist. Once yours are registered, you're in. Otherwise, you simply just won't get any cellular signal.
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- 28 Oct 2024
Whatevs, 28 Oct 2024I wonder if Samsung, Xiaomi, and other manufactures met tha... moreXiaomi has production facilities in Indonesia catering to surrounding countries. Ditto Samsung.
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- 28 Oct 2024
rizki1, 28 Oct 2024Good work from my government that I can say, this can reduc... moreIn India meanwhile, Apple has authorised resellers, official online store and increasing number of Apple stores as well across the cities. They also have a factory here where they assemble iPhones
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- 28 Oct 2024
big W for government because they also gave alot of high taxes for people who bought iPhone 16 from outside country.
yet, Apple lied the government about their promise back in April 2024 during meeting.
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- 28 Oct 2024
jiyen235, 28 Oct 2024I think Xiaomi's main factory's either in China o... moreThey basically don't manufacture any phones in China themselves apart from foldables. It's all outsourced to third parties like BYD and others
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Anonymous, 28 Oct 2024They are a business and they won't invest money in a c... moreWell they should this is the result. Others governments would and could follow.
Then Apple opens new Research and Developement ceters, manufacturies and mmany else in every country or they loose in every field. Sales is most important but also help little nation which can greatly benefit from such investment.
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jiyen235, 28 Oct 2024I think Xiaomi's main factory's either in China o... moreIf I'm not mistaken all the Xiaomi meant for ASEAN zone and Europe are manufactured in India and Vietnam only the packaging color of the Indian variant (full red for Redmi 13 Pro+) differentiate it from others but they are all identical specs wise except bands aggregation between ASEAN versions and European/Global variants.
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- 28 Oct 2024
Apple market only 5% in indonesia.
It small noney.
The rest belong to samsung n xiaomi
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- 28 Oct 2024
pl2rts, 28 Oct 2024It's nothing news when it comes to Apple. Trillion dol... moreThey are a business and they won't invest money in a country just because the local government wants them to
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Apple wouldn't care lol !
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- 28 Oct 2024
I hope google pixel and sony xperia come in indonesia,
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- 28 Oct 2024
Good govt to control the company & its products to meet the spec for Indo users. Appreciate the govt protects the consumers. Go for it!
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- 28 Oct 2024
Anonymous, 28 Oct 2024Indonesia is quite a large market to be missing out on.Daddy apple is so rich that everyone wants some money out of them
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Aierlan, 28 Oct 2024Are you sure Xiaomi has factories in Indonesia. They don�... moreI think Xiaomi's main factory's either in China or India lol
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Whatevs, 28 Oct 2024I wonder if Samsung, Xiaomi, and other manufactures met tha... moreNah, their government just wanta Apple to deliver on their promise! Simple as that.
Glad they take it to where itll imoact them financially!
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Dani.2077, 28 Oct 2024Very good position of Indonesia 👍🏻. It should be like that ... morethank you
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- 28 Oct 2024
Very good position of Indonesia 👍🏻. It should be like that in all/most countries 🤷🏻♂️.
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- 28 Oct 2024
vodny, 28 Oct 2024I like this approach. With some tweaks this should apply on... moreA good start would be paying taxes where they sell the products instead of tax havens