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Apple’s Mac supply has normalized – JPMorgan
Apple’s Mac supply chain challenges due to the Chinese Communist Party’s quixotic COVID-19 lockdowns have finally normalized, according to…
Apple plans to assemble iPhone 14 in India in effort to diversify production outside China
Apple plans to begin assembling the iPhone 14 in India some two months after the product’s launch date, narrowing the gap between China…
Apple in talks to make MacBooks, Apple Watches, HomePods in Vietnam as it looks to break China dependence
Apple is reportedly in talks to produce MacBooks, Apple Watches, and HomePods and MacBooks in Vietnam. Vietnam already produces…
Apple supplier BOE impacted by CCP-mandated power rationing in China’s Sichuan province
Apple supplier BOE Technology Group says in a stock market filing on Tuesday that it will “make adjustments” at its operations in Sichuan…
Apple warns suppliers to follow Chinese Communist Party rules on ‘Taiwan’ labeling
Apple has asked suppliers to ensure that shipments from Taiwan to China strictly comply with Chinese customs regulations after a recent…
TSMC warns China-Taiwan war would devastate global chip supply
The head of Taiwanese tech giant TSMC warned an invasion of the island would render his factory “not operable” as tensions rise ahead…
Has Apple finally balanced supply and demand?
Apple has faced supply chain disruptions due to the various and sundry responses – rational and irrational – to COVID-19 which hampered…
As Mac sales increase in China, Chinese Communist Party pushes homegrown ‘openKylin’ OS
As Apple Macs become more widely used in China, with market share currently around 15 percent, the Chinese Communist Party is pushing…
Apple assembler BYD to start iPad production in Vietnam this month
Apple assembler BYD plans to begin commercial production of iPads this month in Vietnam after a trial run started in May, a provincial…
Apple to move some iPad production out of China for first time due to CCP’s quixotic ‘zero-COVID’ crusade
Apple is moving iPad production out of China for the first time in history and the Chinese Communist Party’s quixotic “zero-COVID” crusade…
Apple assembler Foxconn predicts more stable supply chain for second half of 2022
Taiwan’s Foxconn, a major Apple assembler and the world’s largest contract electronics maker, said on Tuesday that the second half…
Apple assembler Quanta faces worker revolt in locked down Shanghai factory
Apple assembler Quanta faces a revolt by workers stuck inside a Shanghai factory locked down due the CCP’s quixotic “xero-COVID” crusade…
Republican Senators propose barring Apple, Google from hosting apps that accept China’s digital yuan
Amid fears the Chinese Communist Party’s digital payment system could allow CHina to spy on Americans, Republican Senators want to bar…
Development of ‘at least one’ iPhone 14 model hit by China COVID lockdowns – Nikkei
Development of “at least one of Apple’s new flagship iPhones for this year” has fallen behind schedule due to disruptions from the monthlong…
Apple looks to diversify manufacturing outside of China due to draconian COVID-19 restrictions
Apple has told some of its contract manufacturers that it wants to boost production outside China, citing the Chinese Communist Party’s…
Apple assembler Foxconn faces logistics disarray from China’s quixotic ‘zero-COVID’ lockdowns
Apple assembler Foxconn said it faces logistics disruptions and other challenges in China stemming from the CCP’s stringent COVID-19 …
Workers at Apple supplier factory in China clash with guards over ‘zero-COVID’ lockdowns
Hundreds of workers at an Apple supplier’s factory in China clashed with authorities, flooding past barriers after draconian lockdowns…
Chinese Apple suppliers given priority for factory restarts in Shanghai
As economic pains from the COVID policies grew, China has been pushing to resume factory operations, with Apple suppliers given priority for…
China’s quixotic ‘zero-COVID’ quest pushes February MacBook Pro orders into June
Customers who ordered a MacBook Pro with an M1 Max chip in February are being notified that their new Macs aren’t coming until June…
Half of Apple’s suppliers at risk in China due to quixotic ‘zero-COVID’ lockdown quest
Half of Apple’s 200 top suppliers have facilities in and around Shanghai, China where the CCP’s quixotic quest for “zero-COVID” has caused…
Gay dating app Grindr pulled from Apple App Store in China
Days after The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) vowed to renew its campaign to police online content, a popular gay dating app, Grindr, has…
Apple shifted business to Chinese suppliers to curry favor with the Chinese Communist Party
Apple’s increased its reliance on Chinese partners, both as a way of cutting costs as well as to curry favor with the Chinese Communist Party
Luxshare builds massive iPhone factory in China to challenge Foxconn and Pegatron
Luxshare Precision Industry is building a massive manufacturing complex in eastern China as it aims — with Apple’s blessing — to break…
Apple CEO Tim Cook signed secret $275+ billion deal with China in 2016
Apple CEO Tim Cook signed a secret $275+ billion deal with China, promising that Apple would help to develop China’s economic…
Alibaba sees $84.54 billion in orders over 11-day Singles’ Day sales event, up 14% YOY
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba recorded 540.3 billion yuan ($84.54 billion) in orders over its 11-day Singles’ Day sales event, a 14%…
Chinese Communist Party cracks down on private sector handling of data
China is tightening control over information gathered by companies, expanding the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown…
Apple extends list of terms censored in China to Hong Kong and Taiwan
The researchers found that part of Apple’s mainland China political censorship bleeds into both Hong Kong and Taiwan. Much of this censorship…
China demands that Apple pull Didi Chuxing ride-hailing app from App Store
China’s cyberspace regulator has ordered app stores to remove Didi Chuxing. This includes Apple’s App Store. Apple in 2016 invested $1B…
Four U.S. Congressmen: Apple is ‘a pawn in China’s malfeasance’
Four U.S. Congressmen have accused Apple of being “a pawn in China’s malfeasance” by risking users privacy in the CCP-controlled country…
Tim Cook’s Apple is built in China; now it has to answer to the Chinese Communist Party
Tens of thousands of apps have disappeared from Apple’s App Store in China over the past several years, more than previously known…
Apple ramps up iPhone, iPad, Mac production shift out of China
Apple is ramping up the production of iPhones, iPads, Macs and other products outside of China, in a sign that the Cupertino Colossus…
Apple purges thousands of apps from China App Store amid CCP pressure
Apple is purging thousands of videogame apps from the App Store in China as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) clamps down on such content…
President Trump to block U.S. downloads of TikTok, WeChat on Sunday
The Trump administration will ban WeChat and video-sharing app TikTok from U.S. app stores starting Sunday night…
President Trump gives ByteDance and Microsoft until Sept. 15th to reach TikTok deal
With TikTok, owner ByteDance became the first Chinese company to achieve global success with a consumer app. But, the Trump administration…
President Trump orders ByteDance to divest interest in U.S. TikTok operations within 90 days
On Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered China-based ByteDance to divest the U.S. operations of its video-sharing app TikTok within 90…
President Trump on concerns WeChat ban could hurt Apple: ‘Whatever’
On Friday, U.S. President Trump seemed nonplused when asked about the ramifications of banning WeChat on Apple’s iPhone business in China…
Apple warns President Trump about potential ramifications WeChat ban
Apple is among more than a dozen U.S. companies which during a conference call on Tuesday warned the Trump administration about…
Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple iPhone sales could decline up to 30% over WeChat ban
According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo’s worst-case scenario, Apple’s annual global iPhone shipments could decline by 25–30% if the company…
U.S. President Trump issues executive orders banning TikTok and WeChat
U.S. President Trump today issued executive orders banning the China-based TikTok video-sharing and WeChat messaging social networking apps…
Clean Network: U.S. steps up campaign to purge untrusted Chinese apps
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said expanded U.S. efforts on a program it calls “Clean Network” would focus on five areas and include…
Chinese Communist Party state-run media: China will not accept U.S. ‘theft’ of TikTok
China will not accept the “theft” of a Chinese technology company and is able to respond to the Trump administration’s move to push ByteDance…
