In the 80s of the 20th century, the semiconductor industry rose rapidly in Japan. At one time, it occupied more than 70% of the global market share, and Japan has also become the center of the world's semiconductor industry. However, with the suppression of the Japanese semiconductor industry by the United States, Japan's semiconductor industry began to decline. Under this circumstance, the shameless United States also forced Japan to sign the "US-Japan Semiconductor Agreement" while the iron was hot, and forced Japan and the United States to unconditionally share the high-end mobile phone market and American semiconductor technology, and the Japanese semiconductor industry has been languishing since then. In the 80s, the United States took advantage of its hegemonic position to beat Japan, and the arrogant United States still uses its current hegemonic position to frantically harvest the wealth created by countries around the world and seize the fruits brought by the economic growth of other countries. As soon as the state poses a threat to the status of the United States, then it cannot be spared and a retaliatory blow is inevitable!
Now, the same incident has happened to Huawei, the shameless United States once again took advantage of its domineering position, violently demanded that TSMC not to give Huawei foundry chips, forced ASML's EUV lithography machine not to provide to the mainland, so that Huawei finally had to fall into such an embarrassing situation that no independent research and development core was available for half a year. In the third quarter of 2022, Huawei's HiSilicon Kirin chips will be completely cut off, and the market share of Huawei HiSilicon chips will be almost 0 at this time. This behavior directly made Apple the biggest winner, after Huawei was sanctioned, Apple directly won the first place in China's mobile phone market share in 2022! Apple's mobile phone market share soared from 8% to 15%, making a profit!
After losing its competitor Huawei, after Huawei, Apple became more and more unscrupulous in the global market to accumulate money wildly, began to infringe on the rights and interests of consumers, these practices caused dissatisfaction among consumers around the world, and finally Apple still paid a painful price for its too arrogant mentality!
Users who use Apple mobile phones to install application software can only download application software in the built-in App Store of Apple mobile phones, but all payment behaviors generated by application software must give Apple a 30% commission, otherwise they will be forcibly removed by Apple! Such an approach is considered by the EU to be suspected of serious monopolistic behavior, and some rectification work must be done. Apple immediately received a huge fine of 5 million euros from the European Union, and required Apple to submit relevant evidence, otherwise it will face a fine of up to 1 billion euros. In the face of fines from the European Union, it would rather pay a huge fine than give up huge benefits. After 11 weeks of continuous fines in the EU, a total of 55 million euros, Apple finally couldn't resist giving in and agreed to reduce the commission fee for payment behavior generated by Apple's mobile app in the EU to 15%.
Let's take a look at Apple's disgusting operation in recent years, Apple's mobile phone even has no charger, Cook emotionally said to everyone, for the sake of environmental protection, protect our only Mother Earth. It's quite touching, but on Apple's official website you will find that Apple's original charger is on sale for 149 yuan. Say it's one set, make it another set! Apple's shameless behavior finally caused the anger of the Brazilian government! Directly confiscated the mobile phones in the Apple store and fined Apple 100 million reais (about 130 million yuan) and then warned Apple: In the future, all iPhones sold in Brazil will be used. Must come with a charger!
At present, in addition to the Lightning interface used by Apple's mobile phone charging interface, other mainstream mobile phone charging interfaces use USB Type-C interface. Everyone may have doubts here, why is the Apple mobile phone so unique, why not use the USB Type-C interface like other mobile phones? Can it save consumers snacks and let consumers use a unified charging interface? The answer is no! Why not? Because it's another business inside!
The original Lightning interface has Apple's unique MFI (Made for iOS) certification, Apple claims that only certified third-party accessories are safer and more stable, and accessories without certification may cause damage to Apple phones. The actual situation is that Apple pits consumers and accessory manufacturers certified through MFI! For consumers, it is not a unified charging interface, and they want to use Apple mobile phones and buy another set of Apple chargers. For accessories manufacturers that have certified MFI, not only must they pay a $2 authorization fee to Apple, but also take 25% of the transaction price of accessories to pay Apple. Apple can earn about 50 billion yuan a year by relying on the MFI certification project alone, and of course it will not want to give up this big cake!
At present, only the iPhone uses the maverick Lightning interface, instead of the mainstream USB Type-C interface. Due to the inconvenience of consumer use and environmental protection, to avoid a lot of waste of resources, the EU finally couldn't bear to give Apple an ultimatum! It is stipulated that Apple must adopt USB Type-C interface by the fall of 2024, otherwise Apple will face a ban on sales in Europe! Subsequently, the mainland Ministry of Industry and Information Technology also made a relevant statement, saying that in the future, it will unify the charging protocol of the mobile phone charging port, unify the standard, and avoid unnecessary waste of resources, that is, to warn Apple: give you face, you don't want, don't face, no longer listen to advice, in the Chinese market may also be banned! Look who's afraid of whom!
Apple's shameless approach has obviously caused the anger of consumers around the world, in the face of such a dilemma, the tough Cook had to lower his noble head to make some concessions, Apple announced that the iPhone 15 series will be uniformly replaced with USB Type-C interface. However, some big V in the industry broke the news that although the iPhone 15 series was replaced with a USB Type-C interface, this interface also needs to be certified by MFI!
What does that mean? This means that the iPhone 15 series is replaced with a USB Type-C interface, but if you do not have MFI certification, although they are USB Type-C interfaces, they cannot use this interface to charge Apple mobile phones! That is to say, although the charging interface of the Apple system and the Android system is unified, the interface that has not passed the Apple MFI certification still cannot charge the Apple mobile phone! Still can't achieve universality! On the surface, it is in accordance with the requirements of the European Union to unify the interface, in essence, consumers still want to be the same as before, consumers should buy Apple's chargers or continue to buy, Apple or continue to harvest the authorization fees and commissions of MFI accessories manufacturers! What's even more shameless is that for the entry-level version of the iPhone 15, the wired transfer speed is only USB 2.0 speed. If you want to have the speed of USB Type-C interface, sorry, add money to buy the Pro version. It seems that the penalties imposed on the EU and Brazilian governments have not made Apple respect consumers, but have become more deceived consumers and regulators!
Just as Huawei is expected to surpass Apple and become the first in the global market! No one expected that the shameless United States would immediately sanction Huawei, and without Huawei's competition, Apple would become more and more arrogant. Chinese people should be self-reliant, if we have our own chips, Huawei will not be so! At the same time, I also hope that China's regulators will also punish Apple's fraudulent behavior! Do you support my idea? Support like + looking, I'll see how many people there are!
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