When Huawei was banned from sale in the United States, many people were questioning, why can't we ban Apple? China is Apple's largest consumer market, including the iPhone, which generates $100 billion a year in revenue for the company.
If US companies adopt reciprocal confrontation, they will suffer the same losses as Chinese companies such as Huawei. However, we have always maintained the fair and open spirit of a big country and scorned "bullying".
But they never expected that this gave them an opportunity. After they made a fortune in China, they began to "de-Sinicize", trying to separate their industrial chain from "Made in China". Therefore, Apple kicked out the "fruit chain" of more than 30 medium-sized companies in a row last year, which made OFILM on the verge of bankruptcy.
In addition, Apple often turns a blind eye to the relevant policies introduced by the Chinese government, as Gou said, in recent years, they have been "appreciating food" for the mainland to eat.
As we all know, with the large number of smart phones, in recent years, many parts of the world are promoting the standardization of Type-C interface, the main goal of this initiative is to allow consumers to no longer buy other chargers in order to replace mobile phones, which can reduce unnecessary electronic waste.
Although most mobile phone manufacturers have begun to use the Type-C interface and entered the era of 100-watt fast charging, Apple is still "maverick", even if it uses the 30 W Lightning interface, it refuses to replace it, and uses the excuse of "stifling innovation" to reject it.
Over the years, it has been complained many times due to the unification of the Type-C interface, but Apple would rather pay a fine than change it. The biggest reason is the Ligtning interface, which has brought tens of billions of revenue to Apple.
Because Apple's attitude is too tough, the European Union and other countries have issued stern warnings to it, and even the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has issued an "ultimatum" to require Apple to replace the Type-C interface by 2024, otherwise it will be banned from entering the Chinese market.
In the eyes of many people, Apple has basically no room for maneuver this time, because neither Europe nor China can afford to be kicked out. Sure enough, according to the information revealed by insiders, Apple changed the iPhone 15 to a Type-C interface.
I originally thought that this matter was over, but I didn't want Cook to expose his profit-chasing nature again. After that, Apple also had to replace the Type-C interface and establish a set of "new standards" on the iPhone, requiring that the TypE-C interface on the iPhone must pass MIF certification and install a cryptographic chip on it.
The name MFI, everyone should have heard of, simply put, any company, want to cooperate with Apple, need to be authorized by them, and pay a certain fee.
In other words, the current iPhone and the iPhone's Type-C are not the same thing, but two different things, without the iPhone's MIF certification, the iPhone cannot be charged. If you are an Android user and want to buy an iPhone, you also need to buy a MIF certified USB port and a charger.
For Apple, the price of this Ligtning phone can be made up for with MIF. This is simply a joke with the "ultimatum" of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, so that consumers' problems in environmental protection have returned to the original point, and there will be no improvement.
Obviously, Apple doesn't care about anything like "green", they never thought of giving up the electronics market that can bring them huge profits, and the reason why they converted Type-C to Type-C is nothing more than to comply with regulations.
And this time, they are likely to become the last "leek", because Apple's hardware itself is very expensive, an ordinary Type-C data line is ten to thirty dollars, but their products can sell for more than a hundred dollars. So, will everyone still "pay" for Apple's products?