China and Apple seemed to have good business relationship. Could that relationship be in jeopardy?
China banned ten Apple products, including the iPad, iPad Mini, Mac Book Pro and Mac Book Air, from being bought with public money because of security concerns. This mandate is coming from the Chinese government. Apple is just the latest US technology company to be excluded from Chinese government purchases. You can thank tensions between the two nations over hacking and cyber security. One nation is constantly blaming the other. Symantac Corp.’s antivirus protection had been banned, so has Microsoft’s energy-efficient computers.
Guess how much China contributed to Apple’s economy last quarter? China made Apple over $37 billion, about 16 percent of their total revenue for that total. I will admit, there has been hacking stories between China and the US. But whose doing the majority of it? For instance, Apple rejects claims that China’s communist Central Television reports that iPhone software could leak government secrets. I’m not giving Apple any moral awards, but I’m sticking with Apple on this one. And I’m wondering is China using this scare tactic to build their own devices, using American companies’ technology to do so? And now China is virtually pulling the plug on the company that is bringing their economy billions, not to mention jobs? Have they ever heard the phrase, “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you”?