{"id":78322,"date":"2019-02-12T22:47:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T14:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/?p=579076"},"modified":"2019-02-12T22:47:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T14:47:25","slug":"opinion-whats-gone-wrong-with-apple-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/12\/opinion-whats-gone-wrong-with-apple-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: What\u2019s gone wrong with Apple in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/02\/appleinchina.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>There is a common saying among expats in China &#8211; particularly longtime &#8220;China Hands&#8221; &#8211; that goes like this: The more time you spend in China, the less you understand it. So it&#8217;s with this in mind that we try and break down exactly what&#8217;s going wrong for <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/aapl\/\">Apple<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/china\/\">China<\/a> these days, likely a confluence of factors from politics and economics to nationalism and a rapidly changing consumer market. There&#8217;s no easy answer.<\/p>\n<p>People have begun wondering what&#8217;s wrong following a few worrying signs: Apple announced a severe slowdown in iPhone sales in China on its <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/01\/29\/aapl-q1-2019-earnings\/\">recent earnings call<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/02\/11\/iphone-sales-in-china\/\">new report by IDC<\/a> confirmed a concerning tumble in iPhone sales, and Apple&#8217;s uncharacteristic decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/01\/11\/iphone-prices-discounted-by-up-to-20-at-chinese-retailers\/\">cut prices on the latest model phones<\/a> sold at some of China&#8217;s largest retailers. These don&#8217;t seem like moves that would be made by a strong, confident company.<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s wrong in China? Let&#8217;s dig in.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/02\/12\/opinion-apple-gone-wrong-china\/#more-579076\" class=\"more-link\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/02\/12\/opinion-apple-gone-wrong-china\/\">Opinion: What&#8217;s gone wrong with Apple in China<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/\">9to5Mac<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/02\/appleinchina.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1000\"><\/figure>\n<p>There is a common saying among expats in China &ndash; particularly longtime &ldquo;China Hands&rdquo; &ndash; that goes like this: The more time you spend in China, the less you understand it. So it&rsquo;s with this in mind that we try and break down exactly what&rsquo;s going wrong for <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/aapl\/\">Apple<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/china\/\">China<\/a> these days, likely a confluence of factors from politics and economics to nationalism and a rapidly changing consumer market. There&rsquo;s no easy answer.<\/p>\n<p>People have begun wondering what&rsquo;s wrong following a few worrying signs: Apple announced a severe slowdown in iPhone sales in China on its <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/01\/29\/aapl-q1-2019-earnings\/\">recent earnings call<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/02\/11\/iphone-sales-in-china\/\">new report by IDC<\/a> confirmed a concerning tumble in iPhone sales, and Apple&rsquo;s uncharacteristic decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/01\/11\/iphone-prices-discounted-by-up-to-20-at-chinese-retailers\/\">cut prices on the latest model phones<\/a> sold at some of China&rsquo;s largest retailers. These don&rsquo;t seem like moves that would be made by a strong, confident company.<\/p>\n<p>So what&rsquo;s wrong in China? Let&rsquo;s dig in.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/02\/12\/opinion-apple-gone-wrong-china\/#more-579076\">more&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/02\/12\/opinion-apple-gone-wrong-china\/\">Opinion: What&rsquo;s gone wrong with Apple in China<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/\">9to5Mac<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/12\/opinion-whats-gone-wrong-with-apple-in-china\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":188,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2048,452,2,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,403,412,411,395,405,404],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-kng","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78323,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78322\/revisions\/78323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}