“Apple Inc products such as laptops and tablets are not banned from Chinese government procurement lists, according to the country’s chief procurement centre, refuting a report claiming Apple was blacklisted on national security concerns,” Gerry Shih and Paul Carsten report for Reuters.
“According to a Bloomberg News report published on Wednesday, 10 Apple products, including MacBook laptops and iPad tablets, were taken off a government list of approved hardware due to security concerns. The Central Government Procurement Centre, as well as the finance ministry and Apple, said the company never applied to be on the list in the first place,” Shih and Carsten report. “The list that created the confusion this week involves energy-saving products, and is just one of a multitude of government procurement lists in China. Apple has never been on that list, the company said in emailed comments on Friday, declining to give more details.”
Shih and Carsten report, “The government can still purchase Apple products, even if they are not on the energy-saving list, according to the Central Government Procurement Centre website.
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MacDailyNews Take: If the U.S. SEC weren’t a bunch of brain-dead ____, they’d get to the bottom of this obvious manipulation immediately.
As said from the moment this lie began to spread, as one of the first and only outlets to correctly report this story, the reports for Apple products being banned by the Chinese government are nothing more than echo chamber-amplified FUD.
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Apple needs an Office of Fight Back. Maybe that’s the guy from Nike that Angela Arends recently hired.
Free iPhone 3GS or 4S for every senior officials and the immediate family members.
So, here come the retractions – NOT.
we got a quote from Xi Jinping that the CN don’t want to rely on Western brands/Western technology, though the CN have been known to require detailed applications (eg. patents) before letting Western companies sell in China (ostensibly for safety reasons), only to turn said technological briefs over to local companies. The CN don’t have a leg to stand on here.
If you search “Apple” on “Bloomberg TV” site, you will find numerous mentions of the erroneous, unverified “procurement ban” story covered by various segments by Bloomberg reporters including Emily Chang and Steven Yang. Let’s see what kind of clarification coverage this erroneous story receives? PED at Fortune, as usual, did a good job on reporting how many other “news outlets” jumped on repeating Bloomberg’s erroneous report.
Emily Chang, Steven Yang, Malisa Lee are all Chinese last names reported erroneous story about Apple every day.
Those pieces of shit at Bloomberg have been anti Apple for a while now. Those dumb assholes even had a ticker stating that the Apple-IBM deal “hit a snag” because China “banned” Apple products.