Crushing statistics: 95% of Chinese prefer to give up the iPhone just to have WeChat

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We don’t want an iPhone without WeChat

Hong Kong branch Bloomberg agency shared a survey from the social network Weibo, which turned out for Apple in perhaps the worst possible way. 95% of Chinese users surveyed would rather change the brand of the phone they use than have to do without WeChat. There have also been claims that the iPhone will be only “overpriced electrical waste” without WeChat.

However, this, perhaps even convulsive, statement is entirely logical. The WeChat chat platform is something like Facebook Messenger for users in China – an absolutely basic service that we have all our loved ones and the application is easy to use.

Other users have complained about Weibo in a milder way. The absence of a much-used application would be a problem, mainly due to the fact that users often intertwined the entire ecosystem with Apple. And, as you know, it’s hard to get out of it.

Apple needs China

At the same time, China is no secondary market for Apple. Just look at usage statistics, while 26% of customers in China use a Huawei mobile phone, 20% have an iPhone. And one more breathtaking statistic. For the past fiscal year, Apple’s revenue from the Chinese market was $ 43.7 billion, or 17% of total revenue for the year.

The view of the editors
Cat and mouse game. It is probably not possible to describe it better. The USA, led by Donald Trump, is fighting convulsively with Chinese influences and, of course, involves the drivers of the economy – large multinational companies – in these power-political struggles according to current trends. Apple suddenly became a weapon from that multinational company in the hands of half-mad warlords in the field of this illogical war.

LABELS:Apple, China