Adam Kos Apple CEO Tim Cook visited China over the weekend. If he flew there to admire the local sights, it probably wouldn't be a bad thing, but the reason for his visit was completely different and quite controversial.
With 1,4 billion inhabitants, the People's Republic of China is, together with India, the most populous country in the world. For the outside world, its biggest problem is that China is ruled by a totalitarian regime under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. From 1949 to the present, it has been headed by 5 generations of leaders and six biggest leaders, with the latter also holding the position of president since 1993. As reported by the Czech Wikipedia, so everything here is based on four basic principles, which have been part of the Constitution of the PRC since 1982 and create a framework for the Chinese legal system. Unfortunately, for the common people, it follows that ideology is more important than the economic base.
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Cook visited China to attend a state-sponsored business summit. Apple's CEO gave a speech here in which he praised the relationship between China and the United States, stating: “Apple and China grew together, so it was a symbiotic kind of relationship. We couldn't be more excited.” During the speech, Cook also promoted very large supply chain operations in China, despite the fall crisis and the current shift of production to India.
What Cook, on the other hand, completely ignored is the mutual tension between the US and China. We are not only talking about the sanctions on Huawei, but above all the controversy over espionage and of course the restriction of TikTok, which is run by the Chinese company ByteDance, and which is a security threat to the rest of the world as well. His visit may have come at an inopportune time, amid growing uncertainty about the relationship, which is rather political. But for Apple, China is a huge market into which the company has poured billions of dollars, and it certainly does not want to just clear it.
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In connection with Cook's visit to China, the analytical company did Counterpoint Research a survey of the local market, which showed that the best-selling smartphone in China last year was the iPhone 13. After all, the first three positions of this survey belonged to iPhones - the second was the iPhone 13 Pro Max and the third was the iPhone 13 Pro. Specifically, the report states that Apple will contribute more than 2022% of smartphone sales in China in 10. The iPhone 13 had a 6,6% share of the market there.
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In terms of manufacturers, Honor ranked second, followed by vivo and Oppo. Conquering the Chinese market is quite an achievement when you consider that, with the exception of Samsung, the majority of smartphone production comes from China. It's no wonder, then, that Cook is trying. The question is, however, how long this effort will be allowed, precisely by the American government. But as you can see, money comes first, and then it comes to the rest.
