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Apple on Friday removed WhatsApp, Threads, Telegram, and Signal from its App Store in China, per orders from the country's government

Apple's recent decision to support the upcoming Rich Communication Services (RCS) messaging standard in 2024 was not driven but the European Union, but rather it was apparently China. That’s according to John Gruber’s Daring Fireball, citing his typical “birdies”. Gruber says regulatory pressures from China were the cause for RCS, debunking theories that the European...

Major Chinese e-commerce platforms JD.com, Pinduoduo (parent company of Temu), and Alibaba's Taobao are offering significant discounts on Apple's latest iPhone 15, with some prices dropping by as much as 1,501 yuan ($205.14) below the retail price. The move comes as the iPhone 15 faces weaker sales in China compared to its predecessor, according to...

TikTok executives defended the video-sharing app's data security practices during a House of Commons committee meeting on Wednesday. Lawmakers expressed concerns that user data could be accessed by the Chinese government. Western governments have previously raised alarms that TikTok, owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, could be a conduit for sensitive data to China's government or for...

Apple CEO Tim Cook made a surprise visit to Chengdu, China, meeting with gamers at the company's Taikoo Li store and embracing the local tech scene, reports BBC News. During his visit, Cook interacted with players of Tencent's popular online game "Honour of Kings," stating on Chinese social media platform Weibo that the "energy tonight...

In a move to bolster national cybersecurity and reduce dependency on foreign technology, China's central government agencies have been directed to refrain from using Apple's iPhones and other foreign-branded devices at work, reports sources speaking with the Wall Street Journal. The directive, which was communicated to staff via workplace chat groups and meetings, extends a...

Apple has launched an online store via the WeChat messaging app in China.

Cook's comments come as Apple pushes suppliers to expand production outside of China and reduce reliance on the Asian manufacturing hub

Hardware giants like Apple are accelerating plans to move more of their production out of China, but Meta is struggling to do the same

Production at Apple supplier Foxconn's flagship iPhone plant in Zhengzhou, China, had been heavily disrupted by COVID-19 slowdowns and worker unrest

Foxconn will no longer employ a "point-to-point" system, which restricted employees' daily movements to between their dormitories and the factory campus

The news comes as a series of trade sanctions imposed by the U.S. have all but pushed Huawei out of the smartphone market and sent its revenue into a nosedive