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Apple in 2019: Will a recession ruin its run?
@crosslad , not trying to minimize the 3 forum posts you linked, but each of them has significant issue that needed to be taken with a grain of salt:
1. The extremetech link was from November 2016, way before the current trade war escalated, and to this point iPhone sales have not been any target of official retaliation action.
2. and 3., to start, what western pundits never reported, as far as I can tell, was that, on the private enterprise imposed "boycotts", via corporate salary-cut or non-promotion, even the Chinese government owned newspaper 新京報 had a scolding opinion of that, almost immediately after original reports surfaced.
https://new.qq.com/omn/20181224/20181224A0M0MM.htmlUnfortunately, I don't know any good tools to translate the content to english without yielding embarrassingly silly results, but you can try Google translate:https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=zh-CN&tl=en
And, on that point, even the founder of Huawei founder 任正非 was against it, and stated in a recent interview:https://news.sina.com.cn/o/2019-01-21/doc-ihqfskcn9190615.shtml
"Some people in China have proposed to boycott Apple phones. Our attitude is that we cannot sacrifice national interests for our company and sacrifice the country’s open reform policy.", (from Google translate of that link). This is from the very guy who founded Huawei and even had her daughter still detained in Canada.Again, not disputing that the sentiments that you mentioned exist, but it would be inaccurate to view the sentiments that as prevailing thinking of the Chinese people. This caution applies already to extract internet comments about US/western politics, and is even more relevant when dealing with projecting Chinese sentiments, given the high level of government censorship.
