Did you even NOTICE the date of that article I posted???? Or read it?
Apple ramps up iPhone, iPad, Mac production shift out of China
Wednesday, January 27, 2021 3:38 pm It’s dated seven days post inauguration of President Joseph R. Biden. So much for your specious argument.
The Chinese government will make sure that Apple devices are the most purchased in that country, simply because, Apple has huge parts of their manufacturing in that country. And, China, like a lot of other countries do, will be discounting prices (IOW, subsidizing) Apple's devices so that people will be able to 'afford' them. So, no matter which devices the Chinese buy, low-priced or higher, the Chinese people cannot afford them, because, to a huge portion of the people there, an Apple device might require a year's salary to purchase.
ROTFLMAO!
Apple sold $65.6 Billion in iPhones in the 1st Quarter of 2021. Let’s assign 5% of that for assembly costs. Heck, let’s assign 10%! (Actually, China gets around $8 to $12 per iPhone manufactured because many of the components are made elsewhere. But let’s go with the 10%) That’s $6.5 billion... and Apple says that 19% of all Apple’s sales, or about $21 billion were in Greater China... that doesn’t leave much for China to subsidize sales of iPhones for its consumers. China’s GNP for 2020 is an estimated (final figures not yet in) $14.5 Trillion... so your oh so important Apple segment of their economy is a minuscule 0.045%... Actually, at an average ~$10 per iphone, it’s even smaller, about 0.025%.
Why, oh why, would the CCP want a Capitalist company’s smartphone which is non-transparent to their spying be the best selling phone, when their CCP Military owns Huawei lock-stock-and-barrel and phone production including the custom version of Android it uses? That’s the number one selling phone in China, and it IS subsidized in China.
You really do not know what you are blithering about with your fanboi sputtering and lack of economic knowledge at all. You’ve been hoist on your own petard several times in this thread, and several of us with with actual real world knowledge have, when you hit apogee, have fired off your petard once again, launching you higher and higher. You are welcome to your own opinion, but you are not welcome to create your own “facts” which are based only on your belly button speculation.
Back in the saddle again, eh? Glad you are back - it gets lonely with all the Apple haters - something I find hard to understand.