Beijing
CNN
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China hasn’t issued any legal guidelines or guidelines to ban the usage of iPhones or some other overseas cellphone model, a Chinese language authorities spokesperson mentioned on Wednesday.
“We’ve got at all times been open to overseas firms and welcome them to grab the alternatives and share the fruits of China’s financial growth,” Ministry of Overseas Affairs spokesperson Mao Ning mentioned at a press convention in Beijing.
She added that China has observed “many media studies on the safety incidents of Apple’s iPhone,” and that the nation “attaches nice significance to info and cyber safety.”
Mao didn’t elaborate. She additionally urged overseas cellphone firms in China to comply with the nation’s privateness legal guidelines and to forestall “any individual or group” stealing information saved of their prospects’ telephones.
Final week, The Wall Road Journal reported that China had banned the usage of iPhones by central authorities officers, citing unnamed individuals accustomed to the matter. The report triggered a drop in Apple’s shares — the inventory suffered its largest every day loss in a month.
China is the biggest overseas marketplace for the corporate’s merchandise, and Chinese language gross sales represented a few fifth of the corporate’s whole income final 12 months. Apple hasn’t replied to a request for remark.
The corporate doesn’t disclose iPhone gross sales by nation, however analysts at analysis agency TechInsights estimate that there have been extra iPhone gross sales in China than in the US final quarter. Apple additionally produces the vast majority of its iPhones in Chinese language factories.
