[JoSixChip]

Decoupling from china is not easy. Who knew?

[mrsmith]

LOL!
This article was dictated by Xi Jinping?

Hmmm... maybe Chinese companies could find another way for Westerners to participate in their markets?
But, oh no, CCP wouldn’t allow that- and they’re the masters of the universe.

Trump, and our, problem has always been the fightback from Westerners invested in China who don’t want to lose on their Chines income.

[TECTopcat]

First I have stock in all the companies mentioned and I am not giving advice to buy or sell but beware articles like this one. these are often pump and dump articles, an article meant to reinforce the price of stocks the writer has already bought and then hopes the article will drive it a little higher and then they sell

[grey_whiskers]

Trump should ban all H1Bs as well as take out TenCent.
What’s not to like?

[dayglored]

Apple ping.

[eldoradude]

And U.S. multinationals could see a big chunk of their revenues disappear unless cooler heads prevail

[Swordmaker]

This is a brain dead article. The Chinese Apple App Store is not available to American iPhone users, and the American, European, and in fact the rest of the world’s Apple App Stores are not available to Chinese users. It’s blocked by the Great China Firewall.

This block is not by Apple’s intent but rather by China’s intent. Trump’s edict prohibiting Chinese government’s sanctioned spyware apps from being available on American iOS and Android phones cannot impact the sales or downloads of those apps in China, because it’s easy to proscribe the offering of the apps here, while China can still offer them in China. Such Apps can be listed on anti-malware definition databases for Android, and merely not offered on non-Chinese Apple App stores outside of China.

Needless to say, this same article has been written multiple times before and its theory that some magic Chinese phone will arise to take the iPhone’s place in the Chinese market because of a demand for a "must have" app, and the prediction has failed multiple times before. Why? Because there are thousands of knock-off similar apps that access those same social media platforms in China, replacements for those Government spyware apps, and most importantly because Apple is not under Trump’s edict in China to delete the apps from any Chinese consumer owned devices or from the Chinese Apple App Store. Everyone in China KNOWS the government is spying on its citizens through their apps and that the law requires government access through apps. It’s a "So what else’s new?" In China. . . It the expected business as normal. President Trump’s authority to order such removal does not extend to China, just as China cannot order the US to delete any Apps they don’t like (yet!). Ergo, nothing in the app availability in China will change for consumers to get upset about that will cause them to change their phone purchase preferences as this article ties its panties in a wad about.

It’s FUD Season!
OOPS! Dwat! I missed!
You wascally Apple, you!
This is just another premature FUD SEASON (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) Apple hit piece article misfire, mistimed because Apple moved their major product announcement, usually held at the end of September (and this FUD article would be timely), to the end of October due to Covid uncertainty, thus making the normal FUD Season article timing off by a month. LOL! FUD Season is traditionally timed to start Before and run during the three weeks leading up to any major Apple event or Apple product announcement and is characterized by the publication and promulgation of propaganda anti-Apple and negative news about Apple in the printed media, broadcast news, and online before and for about a week afterwards, coordinated by Apple competition and Financial speculators trying to drop AAPL value for fun and profit.

Because of Apple’s last minute change in plans, some articles, especially those scheduled for publication in print magazines, such as this one and one from several days ago in Inc., could not be delayed, and misfired at the old FUD target time frame. ROTFLMAO! — PING!

Mis-timed APPLE FUD Article Claiming That
Some Chinese Phone Maker Will Displace
iPhones In China Due to Trump App Bans
PING!

If you want on or off the Apple/Mac/iOS Ping List, Freepmail me.

[Steven Tyler]

....Once again, smartphones from Chinese vendors such as Xiaomi will be winners as these Chinese smartphone makers will help their overseas customers figure out how to download or update WeChat......

The customer holds all the leverage.
Maybe, the Chinese manufacturers will have to figure out how to communicate with their Customers.

If the Chinese phone makers cannot steal technology from around the world, they will have a product as useful as the Palm Pilot Professional