Since the United States banned Huawei three years ago, a voice of doubt has never faded, that is, "Why can't we ban Apple"?
In this regard, some insiders have made a special interpretation, because there are more than 200 Chinese enterprises in apple's supply chain, covering more than 5 million jobs, if Apple is banned, these domestic suppliers who are highly tied to the "fruit chain" may face a "catastrophe", which may trigger a large-scale wave of unemployment.
Foxconn Gou once said that the mainland market is inseparable from Apple and Foxconn, and they have been giving the mainland food for all these years. Although this statement sounds very arrogant, it is not without reason from the perspective of apple's ecological scale.
OFILM's encounter is the best proof. Due to the sudden "abandonment" of Apple, OFILM's net profit margin plummeted by more than 90% in just one month, and finally barely broke his wrist through stripping and restructuring.
It is precisely for this reason that the central media has issued an appeal that hopes that domestic enterprises can diversify their layout and not put eggs in one basket, thereby alleviating "apple dependence".
Of course, supply chain relationships are only one of them, and there are two other important reasons why we don't ban Apple. First of all, the mainland adheres to the principle of fair and open trade, and has always been quite "Confucian" in terms of legitimate trade exchanges.
The United States banning Huawei is a rogue act, and if we use the other way to do it, we may be able to relieve our anger, but it will damage our image as a great power to a certain extent, which is obviously not a wise move.
Secondly, the domestic high-end mobile phone has not yet reached the height of Apple, if you blindly disable better products, it is tantamount to standing still.
It is undeniable that domestic mobile phones have developed rapidly in recent years, especially after the implementation of the chip ban in the United States, domestic friends have collectively shouted out the slogan of benchmarking Apple, and increased investment in research and development, and constantly seek breakthroughs in core technologies. But overall, there is still a big gap with the industry status of Apple's mobile phone.
The recent release of the iPhone 14 by Apple is enough to explain the problem, and it can be said that it has completely torn open the "fig leaf" of domestic mobile phones.
According to public information, in the first six months of this year, domestic mobile phone shipments were about 134 million units, down 16.9% from the same period last year. In this regard, many domestic manufacturers have complained that the market situation in the smart phone market is not good, and the reason for the sharp decline in their own shipments is attributed to the decline in consumption capacity.
But this is clearly not the case. In June this year, the total sales of the domestic mobile phone market was about 14 million units, but apple alone sold as many as 7 million units, almost all other domestic manufacturers combined.
The newly released iPhone 14 is even more popular, for this reason, Apple CEO Cook also raised the initial stock planning to about 90 million units.
Such a result can be said to have completely torn open the "fig leaf" of domestic mobile phones. Obviously, the root cause of the failure of domestic manufacturers to sell is not the decline in consumption power and the reluctance of young people to change to new mobile phones, but in the cognition of many people, the iPhone is better than the domestic mobile phone.
What is more ironic is that the iPhone14 is actually not much of an upgrade this time, the battery life is only 30W, and the pixel is only 42 million, such a configuration can be said to be worthless in front of today's domestic mobile phones, all of which are left over from Android play. Even Jobs's daughter Eve mocked the iPhone 14 for being nothing new.
Although the iPhone 14 is equipped with satellite communication capabilities, the support area is limited to the United States and Canada, and is not open to Chinese users. But even with repeated differentiation, Apple's iPhone 14 is still selling amazingly in the mainland market.
The reason for this phenomenon is mainly because Apple's performance in the ecology is stable and excellent, and its self-developed IOS system combined with A16 chip can be said to be a gap that domestic mobile phone manufacturers cannot overcome in the high-end mobile phone market. Huawei, which holds the Hongmeng system, could have done it, but it was cut off by the United States and could only be forced to use Qualcomm's 4G version of Snapdragon.
In contrast, other domestic high-end mobile phones, although they are willing to spend money in the configuration, the stacking material is sufficient, the parameters are good, but the use experience has not reached the level of the iPhone.
More critically, the homogenization of domestic mobile phones is serious, the system is Android, and the chip is Qualcomm Snapdragon or MediaTek Tianji, which is difficult to create a unique brand influence, which is also one of the reasons why domestic mobile phones often appear in the inner volume.
For domestic manufacturers, the encounter with the iPhone14 dimensionality reduction blow is not a bad thing, the so-called "near Zhu is red, near ink is black", do not ban Apple, can let domestic manufacturers see their own shortcomings, iPhone mobile phone brought by the market pressure, is undoubtedly the driving force for domestic mobile phones to continue to forge ahead.
However, the efforts made by domestic friends are obvious to all, high configuration and high cost performance can be said to be the same as no shortage, in fact, in addition to the system and chip, domestic mobile phones in other aspects not only do not lose iPhone, but have huge advantages, such as battery life, image, signal and so on.
Therefore, I hope that the Chinese people can face up to domestic brands, and also hope that some "fruit powder" can abandon the concept of "flattery". There is every reason to believe that with the continuous rise of domestic chips and systems, domestic mobile phones will inevitably be able to regain their own home and win dignity!