- Chinese state-owned businesses are increasingly forbidding the use of iPhones, which has office employees worried that their employers may follow suit.
- Although the central government has not formally issued such a ban, a number of state agencies and businesses are telling employees not to bring Apple devices to work.
- Bloomberg was informed by many workers that China plans to extend similar limitations to additional state-owned businesses and institutions with ties to the government.
- Some office workers started to fear that their supervisors could ask them to cease using their iPhones as soon as word of the restriction started to circulate on Chinese social media last week.
- Many posted about their problems on Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter, which indicates if the poster uses an iPhone. Although it’s not apparent how many of these individuals work for public or private enterprises, several said that their employers had previously instructed them to buy a new phone.
- At the moment, uncertainty persists over the exact scope of the purported anti-iPhone mandate’s chilling impact. More than 56 million people were employed by China’s 150,000 state-owned businesses in 2021, including banks, energy enterprises, and construction giants. In China, different organizations and local authorities frequently interpret and apply new regulations in wildly different ways, even within the same government body.
- According to Nikkei, at least one state-related company has begun requesting that employees stop wearing Air Pods and Apple Watches while at work. With iPhones accounting for one-fourth of all mobile devices sold in China in the third quarter of 2022, Apple has recently dominated the country’s smartphone industry.
- Chinese state-owned businesses are increasingly forbidding the use of iPhones, which has office employees worried that their employers may follow suit.
- Although the central government has not formally issued such a ban, a number of state agencies and businesses are telling employees not to bring Apple devices to work.
- Bloomberg was informed by many workers that China plans to extend similar limitations to additional state-owned businesses and institutions with ties to the government.
- Some office workers started to fear that their supervisors could ask them to cease using their iPhones as soon as word of the restriction started to circulate on Chinese social media last week.
- Many posted about their problems on Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter, which indicates if the poster uses an iPhone. Although it’s not apparent how many of these individuals work for public or private enterprises, several said that their employers had previously instructed them to buy a new phone.
- At the moment, uncertainty persists over the exact scope of the purported anti-iPhone mandate’s chilling impact. More than 56 million people were employed by China’s 150,000 state-owned businesses in 2021, including banks, energy enterprises, and construction giants. In China, different organizations and local authorities frequently interpret and apply new regulations in wildly different ways, even within the same government body.
- According to Nikkei, at least one state-related company has begun requesting that employees stop wearing Air Pods and Apple Watches while at work. With iPhones accounting for one-fourth of all mobile devices sold in China in the third quarter of 2022, Apple has recently dominated the country’s smartphone industry.
Source:
Business Insider
