{"id":307408,"date":"2019-05-24T08:02:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T06:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=307408"},"modified":"2019-05-24T08:03:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T06:03:07","slug":"stop-using-iphones-it-is-embarrassing-chinese-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/307408-stop-using-iphones-it-is-embarrassing-chinese-users.html","title":{"rendered":"Stop using iPhones, it is embarrassing &#8211; Chinese users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a US crackdown on its technology trade with China which resulted in <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/306878-google-pulls-huaweis-android-licence-what-it-could-mean-for-south-africa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Huawei being barred from working with US companies<\/strong><\/a>, iPhone users in China have begun switching to Huawei devices.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/apps-social\/article\/3011126\/apples-china-woes-may-worsen-huawei-ban-nudges-die-hard-iphone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>South China Morning Post<\/strong><\/a>, smartphone users in China are switching from iPhone to Huawei to show support for the company.<\/p>\n<p>A manager at one of China&#8217;s largest solar module manufacturers switched from an iPhone 7 to a Huawei P30, citing a desire to show his support for Huawei in the current climate.<\/p>\n<p>Another ex-iPhone user employed at a state-owned telecommunications company switched to Huawei too, saying it was embarrassing to use an iPhone when all company executives in China own Huawei devices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s kind of embarrassing to pull an iPhone out of your pocket nowadays when all the company executives use Huawei,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that Huawei is winning over customers from Apple in China, and the US ban has only increased customer support for the Chinese smartphone manufacturer.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/307400-qualcomm-could-have-one-life-left.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Qualcomm could have one life left<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a US crackdown on its technology trade with China which resulted in Huawei being barred from working with US companies, iPhone users in China have begun switching to Huawei devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":298130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[605,1982,1125],"class_list":["post-307408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-huawei","tag-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}