{"id":11483,"date":"2023-09-09T23:37:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T21:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/09\/china-troubles-could-upset-apples-cart-as-it-prepares-to-launch-the-iphone-15\/"},"modified":"2023-09-09T23:37:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T21:37:56","slug":"china-troubles-could-upset-apples-cart-as-it-prepares-to-launch-the-iphone-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/09\/china-troubles-could-upset-apples-cart-as-it-prepares-to-launch-the-iphone-15\/","title":{"rendered":"China troubles could upset Apple\u2019s cart as it prepares to launch the iPhone 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geopolitics may affect sales in a big market \u2013 and customers may be annoyed by the new charging socket too<\/p>\n<p>Apple chief executive Tim Cook will hope that the launch of the latest iPhones on Tuesday will be enough to buoy consumers and investors in the face of a falling share price caused by deteriorating international relations.<\/p>\n<p>Almost $200m (\u00a3160m) was wiped from this most valuable tech stock last week as escalating tensions between Beijing and Washington threatened to restrict sales in one of its biggest markets: China accounts for roughly a fifth of Apple\u2019s revenue. Reports of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/08\/china-iphone-ban-government-state-owned-firms-workers-apple-us\" title=\"\">the Chinese government clamping down on use of the American devices by state employees<\/a> may be having a wider chilling effect as consumers across the country are encouraged to buy from homegrown champions such as Huawei.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/sep\/10\/china-troubles-could-upset-apples-cart-as-it-prepares-to-launch-the-iphone-15\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/226c52fec23d62d189170b80f37809e5cec5bc5a\/570_688_3199_1919\/master\/3199.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2e8e94b26a2848c93ff13827c2cd8426\" title=\"China troubles could upset Apple\u2019s cart as it prepares to launch the iPhone 15\" \/>Geopolitics may affect sales in a big market \u2013 and customers may be annoyed by the new charging socket too<br \/>\nApple chief executive Tim Cook will hope that the launch of the latest iPhones on Tuesday will be enough to buoy consumers and investors in the face of a falling share price caused by deteriorating international relations.<br \/>\nAlmost $200m (\u00a3160m) was wiped from this most valuable tech stock last week as escalating tensions between Beijing and Washington threatened to restrict sales in one of its biggest markets: China accounts for roughly a fifth of Apple\u2019s revenue. Reports of the Chinese government clamping down on use of the American devices by state employees may be having a wider chilling effect as consumers across the country are encouraged to buy from homegrown champions such as Huawei. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geopolitics may affect sales in a big market \u2013 and customers may be annoyed by the new charging socket too Apple chief executive Tim Cook will hope that the launch of the latest iPhones on Tuesday will be enough to buoy consumers and investors in the face of a falling share price caused by deteriorating &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/09\/china-troubles-could-upset-apples-cart-as-it-prepares-to-launch-the-iphone-15\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China troubles could upset Apple\u2019s cart as it prepares to launch the iPhone 15<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11483"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}