Banning Apple phones? Cook didn't expect the situation to reverse so quickly
No iPhone? Cook didn't expect things to change so quickly.
As we all know, since the beginning of the smartphone era, Apple has completely overturned Nokia's dominance in the smartphone field with the iPhone. At its peak, it pushed Samsung to the top of the world more than once, and maintained an absolute dominant position in China's high-end mobile phone market, and made a lot of money by relying on high prices. Especially in China, 20% of China's annual revenue comes from Apple, which means huge benefits.
With the advent of Huawei's Kirin chips, although Huawei's mobile phones have been advancing by leaps and bounds, the Mate series has repeatedly suppressed Apple, and even once reduced its market share in China to 8%! However, after the United States imposed comprehensive sanctions on Huawei, Apple has returned to the top of the list, and its market share in the domestic market has also risen rapidly to 20%. It can be said that Huawei has not only lost a strong competitor, but Apple will also enter a "shining moment". According to foreign media reports, a few months ago, Apple's market value once again exceeded 3 trillion US dollars, becoming the world's most valuable technology company with huge profits.
In order to completely get rid of its dependence on the mainland market and supply chain, Apple has been transferring its production capacity to Southeast Asia, such as India, over the years, forcing Foxconn, Wistron and other contract manufacturers to set up factories in India, hoping to share the "dividend" brought by India's "population" as soon as possible. That's not all, Apple has also come up with a set of marketing strategies, such as buying a mobile phone, "squeezing toothpaste" to make money all year round, and under the banner of "environmental protection", buying a mobile phone without a charger can be said to be "profit first", which fully reflects the "profit first" business thinking!
Musk "bombards" Apple, Apple may ban it
However, Cook never thought that Apple would take this opportunity to return to its top, but he did not expect that the "comeback" would come so quickly! As we all know, the reason why Apple can return to the position of 3 trillion US dollars is to introduce open AI technology into the operating system in the future. However, Musk, the founder of OpenAI, had severed ties with OpenAI a long time ago, so Apple's decision made Musk very unhappy!
Foreign media reported that Musk had attacked Apple many times on social media, claiming that Apple's integration of OpenAI into the operating system could not protect user privacy and information. Musk even issued a serious warning to Apple, saying that if Apple insisted on applying OpenAI to the operating system, it would completely ban other companies under its umbrella!
Has the Indian government "taken action" against Apple? Or will it ban Apple?
It's not just Musk. Not long ago, the Indian government was targeting Apple for the simple reason that they wanted to withdraw from India and return to their own country. In fact, Apple originally thought that by moving its production capacity to India, it would be able to enjoy the benefits of the "population advantage" and profit from it. However, after Foxconn's Indian factory assembled some iPhone 15 models, India's "shortcomings" were exposed.
Because the overall quality of Indian workers is far inferior to that of domestic ones, and the production technology and yield rate of Indian suppliers are very poor, the qualified rate of mobile phone shells is less than 50%, and there are problems everywhere! Therefore, in the market, products such as iPhone 15 often have "quality control problems", and it will also cause a certain blow to the brand and brand image of Apple iPhone. Therefore, during the 618 period, in order to reduce inventory, a big price reduction must be carried out.
In order to make up for the losses and restore its reputation, Apple has invested in the mainland this year. In the first half of the year, Cook also met with the main leaders of BYD, Changjia Precision, Lens Technology and other companies, and arranged the iPhone 16 orders before BYD and Foxconn's mainland factories were assembled. This means that in the second half of this year, Indian factories will not be able to receive orders from Apple! According to Indian media reports, the Indian government is also concerned about Apple's "sky-high fine" because Foxconn must withdraw from the Indian market, otherwise it will get nothing!
The Indian market is too chaotic. Even Amazon, Xiaomi, and Google have all failed there. If Apple really plans to withdraw from the Indian market, the Indian government will definitely "sanction" it and even ban it from using any communication tools! So Cook does not plan to return to the mainland completely, but to continue to increase investment in India.
However, even so, Apple still cannot escape the fate of decline, because now, not only is it completely banned from sale in Russia and Turkey, but also in the first half of this year, the South Korean military also imposed "sanctions" on the South Korean military. Apple and other products will be banned anywhere in the South Korean military base, which has caused Apple to lose a lot of market share! As the saying goes, there is always a way out. In order to make profits over the years, Cook has never considered the needs of users and has even been "squeezing toothpaste", which inevitably lost a large number of loyal fans. With the strong return of Huawei, it can be expected that with the gradual loss of the Chinese market, the "empire" will also collapse! Welcome to you
