Indian media has revealed that Apple is in talks with more than 40 firms in the region to become component suppliers for devices including the iPhone, ahead of a Trump administration applying tariffs to Chinese imports.
China's annual Singles Day shopping festival has again seen Apple's iPhone sales decline year over year.
The developer of an app dropped from the App Store in China has filed a lawsuit that challenges Apple's overall practices, as well as damages of $420,000.
Proposed tariffs under the Trump administration could trigger considerable price increases for consumer electronics in the United States, though Apple may be able to weather the storm.
Evidence suggests that the earlier Chinese Salt Typhoon breach of American telecoms may have led to the potential hacking of two presidential campaign officials' iPhones.
Sales of the iPhone are increasing in China, with Apple making a return to the country's top five smartphones thanks to the iPhone 16.
Apple will continue to make more investments in China, CEO Tim Cook has insisted, as part of his meeting with China's top technology official.
Apple CEO Tim Cook and COO Jeff Williams have headed out to China once again, including a visit to promote using the iPhone and iPad for agriculture.
Shoppers in China can get a deal on the iPhone 16 ahead of Singles Day, as Apple's smartphone receives a price cut in early promotions for the sales event.
New figures say that in China, the iPhone 16 range sold a fifth more in its first three weeks than the iPhone 15 did in 2023.
Super Typhoon Yagi, the second strongest tropical cyclone of 2024, is impacting southern China, once again highlighting Apple's reliance on the country as iPhone 16 launches.
A box of Apple products marked "iPhone return for repair" actually contained over $100,000 in iPads, Apple Watch Ultras, and AirPods meant to be smuggled to China, but Customs seized the shipment.
TikTok's continued fighting with the United States government has the video app insisting that the Department of Justice has got it wrong when it comes to its association with China.
There has been an unenforced loophole in China's App Store that has allowed developers to funnel in-app payments to external payment processors, and Apple is reportedly leaning on Tencent and ByteDance to make it stop.
Investment analyst firm TD Cowen predicts that Apple Intelligence will bring a modest boost to the iPhone 16 range, but be much more significant in 2025, by when China sales are expected to have returned to growth.
Apple's fortunes in China may be getting worse in the short term, with iPhone shipments for the second quarter reportedly down year-on-year as local rivals increase competition.
Apple is getting close to opening its new materials lab in Shenzhen, China, as part of the iPhone maker's continued spending on research and development.
India is cutting back its import duty on iPhones and also selected iPhone components, meaning it will cost Apple less to bring in completed phones, and to make new ones locally.
Apple's Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams has been seen in Chinese state media photographs, meeting with senior officials in the country.
Both Apple and Samsung have increased their sales in Q4 2024 compared to a year earlier, but rising competition from China's Xiaomi and others mean the iPhone's market share has dropped.
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