Enough is enough already, with this fucking country and their stealing. That’s what you get Apple for having the murderous pigs at FOXCONN do your manufacturing.
A. They steal and resell your technology and manufacturing process.
B. The Chinese government then declares the company that ripped you off is the rightful inventor of the technology, because they don’t give a shit about your IP.
Intellectual property regulators in Beijing barred Apple from selling models of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in the city, citing strong similarity to an existing Chinese phone, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Apple has the option to appeal the regulatory ruling to a higher court, WSJ said, but some stores stopped selling the phones months ago and are switching to newer models. Apple will soon end production of both of the banned iPhone 6 models, a person familiar with the production plans told the Journal.
The regulator’s decision is another speed bump for Apple in its largest market outside of the U.S., The Journal said.Struggling iPhone sales in the country were a major factor in the tech giant’s first quarterly decline in more than a decade this April.
China also shut down Apple’s iBooks and iTunes movies service in April, as regulators said the company did not have the appropriate licenses, people familiar with the matter told the Journal.
Shares of Apple are selling off on this news. If Tim Cook had any balls at all, he’d move manufacturing out of China. Oh, no word on whether China is going to shut down APPLE STORE REPLICAS in their dog eating, piracy filled, nation of liars and thieves.
Did that come across strong enough?
UPDATE: CNBC’s Josh Lipton is out with a source report who says the WSJ story is bullshit.
I’m still pissed they stole plans for the F-35 and are trying to build and sell it. I hope a minor tsunami wipes away their island-building efforts in the pacific.
Not bad
Italians stole gunpowder and pasta from them, guess they dont want to pay apple royalities anymore.
Patents are retarded now! I used tobe a product designer. Patents are lawyer tricks now. They hinder product development. What has apple done but package existing technology. Apple is a consumer fad. Apple bought and killed Beos. They are inovation killers.
Even taking your side that ‘patents are retarded’ doesn’t give China the right to ban iPhones in China because they’re too similar to a fake. By default, they’re supporting an IP of a fraud over inventor. This is the very definition of fuckery.
I get your point about good business practice. China is retarded, but apple is retarded as well. Counties spy on each other and use covert tactics to get over on each other. Apple uses the US goverment and fed to get over on competitors in other countries. Their is no honor among theives. We are all corrupt. We all steal from starving africans, if you dare to look objectivly. We have created a dog eat dog world but act like we are the good guys that will go to heaven.
And they didn’t ‘steal gunpowder and pasta’ you moron.
You say that like moron is a bad thing.