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China Bans iPad, MacBook Pro, Other Apple Products For Government Use

Posted by timothy on from the regulatory dept.

MojoKid (1002251) writes "China seems to be on a mission to isolate itself from the world, at least in terms of technology. After banning Windows 8 on government PCs and raiding several of Microsoft's offices in China as part of an anti-trust investigation, Chinese officials have now prohibited purchase of several Apple products for government use. The list of banned Apple products include the iPad, iPad Mini, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and half a dozen other items, all of which were left off of a final government procurement list distributed in July. This is a potentially big hit to Apple, which generated around 16 percent of its $37.4 billion in revenue last quarter from China. Apple saw its iPad sales jump 51 percent and Mac sales boosted 39 percent in China."

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  1. Seriously can you blame them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Blame the NSA

    1. Re:Seriously can you blame them by Skarjak · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Good point. How can anyone trust hardware and software coming from the states? Although when it comes to software, I'm sure that the NSA's people will be quite busy with trying to find security holes into whatever the Chinese decide to go with.

    2. Re:Seriously can you blame them by ewibble · · Score: 5, Informative

      sort of the US banning Chinese products from government http://techonomy.com/2013/04/h...

  2. "Isolating" by choosing open source? by Skarjak · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Up to now, they've been banning proprietary products for the benefit of more open ones. I know that we like to show China as a country with isolationist tendencies, but I'm not sure the glove fits on this one. I don't think choosing not to get screwed by Microsoft or Apple is such a bad thing.