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>Apple’s primary leverage with the Chinese government is Chinese consumers’ love for Apple products, said Dean Garfield, head of the Information Technology Indu
by IBM 8y ago
>Apple’s primary leverage with the Chinese government is Chinese consumers’ love for Apple products, said Dean Garfield, head of the Information Technology Industry Council, a trade group that represents Apple and other tech companies.
That's not Apple's primary leverage in China. It's the millions of workers they indirectly employ there.
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoI don’t think the Chinese government cares much about that, there are literally 10s of millions of migrant worker factory jobs like that, and Apple’s assembly business is probably seen negligible to the Chinese government. But in the other hand the Chinese government really really cares about keeping the middle class happy.
- stcredzero 8y agoThe Chinese government could restrict iPhones, but they'd only be partially successful. Instead, they can make iPhones just a blingy platform on which to run WeChat and extort Apple into giving them user's data. The Chinese government wins.
- baybal2 8y agoYou know, Mao carried very well for the ~60 to ~70 million Chinese bourgeoisie. So did Jiang when he decides to purge a cult in which was said one in 12 urban Chinese were members of. And now some think that they will stop at upsetting few exalted hipsters.