Xiaomi and Huawei are feeling the pinch in their homeland, according to a report, with the iPhone SE said to be eating into the Chinese firms' sales. The most inexpensive iPhone ever was reported as having received over 3.4 million pre-orders before its release last month, with the Chinese enjoying the iPhone SE's smaller chassis but powerful internals.
China has officially become the fifth location for the rollout out of Apple Pay mobile payment solution. The Cupertino-based company's partnership with UnionPay was widely reported a number of months ago, where it was also noted that the collaboration would see Apple able to penetrate the Chinese market with Apple Pay. That partnership has now come to fruition with the payment platform launching in the market thanks to UnionPay's wide-ranging infrastructure that's supported by multiple banks in the country.
Apple today has announced that it's bringing Apple Pay to China in partnership with China's UnionPay in early 2016.
A new report claims that Apple has struck an agreement with China's UnionPay that would see Apple Pay work with the firm's point-of-sale terminals throughout the country.
Remember the fake Apple Stores we talked about back in July? While they were pretty good in their own right, this new faux store discovered today simply raises the benchmark for authentic, counterfeit retail stores.
Many people associate China with fake products that are easy to come by, but they lack a lot of tech support since they're not made by credible companies. Yet, it now seems that an official Apple Store in China has serviced a fake MacBook Air, as in: not made by Apple.
Baidu, China's number one choice for search, has announced a new deal with Microsoft that will see the search company's English queries be directed to Bing, with the results being published to Baidu's own pages.
Reports coming out of China today suggest that search giant Baidu is working on its own mobile operating system based on none other than Google's Android.
Looks like Microsoft is on a roll these days, after acquiring Skype for a whooping $8.5 Billion, reports in Chinese press now suggests that Microsoft is on the verge of announcing a deal with Chinese search giant Baidu.
Chinese statistics company UMeng recently published a report on iOS usage in the country, and the standout stat is that fully 34.6% of iPhones are jailbroken.