At the Wall Street Journal Digital Live conference, Alibaba founder Jack Ma mentioned that he would be interested in bringing Apple Pay to Alibaba's customers in China. Ma's statement comes on the heels of Tim Cook announcing that he would like to work with the Chinese retailer in launching the NFC-based payment system in the country. When asked if Alibaba's Alipay payment solution...
Tim Cook reiterated the importance of the Chinese market on the last day of his trip to China, saying that Apple wants everything they do to work in the country. This includes Apple Pay. While Apple is in the process of figuring out how the payment system will work in China, Cook said that they need to understand completely what needs to happen to actually get the payment system to work...
Apple CEO Tim Cook has confirmed that the company plans to open up 25 retail stores in China within the next two years. According to an interview transcript published on Chinese web portal Sina, Apple is looking to expand on its 15 outlets currently located in the country. Cook also recently visited a Foxconn factory in China. Tim Cook previously touched on expansion plans in China...
Apple CEO Tim Cook has met with Chinese Vice Premier Ma Kai to talk security of user information. The meeting comes two days after an attack on the iCloud website in China was reported. Whether or not the attack was specifically on the table is unknown, but it is likely. From Xinhuanet: Chinese Vice Premier Ma Kai and Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday exchanged views on...
After showing off the Apple Watch at a high-end boutique in Paris during Fashion Week, Apple is continuing its fashion push by placing the watch on the cover of next month's issue of Vogue China. According to Business of Fashion editor-in-chief Angelica Cheung: When Jonathan Ive and Tim Cook talked me through how they developed the concept of the Apple Watch from the beginning, I...
It was only yesterday when we reported that pre-orders for both the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus reached 2 million in China, but today Chinese media outlets have refreshed reports with new figures. According to Tencent, reservations for the new smartphones have hit 4 million: [Translated] Integrated three operators, virtual operators, as well as data Suning, Dixon pass and Jingdong...
Chinese news sources have reported that retailers and local carriers have surpassed 2 million pre-orders in just 6 hours since the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus were made available at respective stores. Apple isn't going live with its own pre-order system until October 10 (launching the new smartphones on October 17), but that hasn't halted millions of excited fans reserving their chosen...
The wait for an iPhone 6 in China may be coming to a close, as Chinese regulatory authorities have mentioned that the device is in final stages of review for approval. Head of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) Miao Wei had this to say in an interview with Tencent: The iPhone 6 has entered the final stage of the approval process, now it's just a matter of...
Why does Apple bear the brunt out of seemingly every labor complaint that comes out of China? This week Greenamerica.org ÷posted a scathing report over conditions in a Chinese electronics part maker factory. The report implicates Apple, though it's about Catcher Technology, a company in Suqian, China. The company manufactures aluminum casings used by Apple for the MacBook and iPad....
The government of China could launch its own PC desktop operating system sometime in October which could later be extended to smartphones and tablets, in a bid to compete with rival overseas systems from Microsoft, Google and Apple. The government controlled Chinese news agency Xinhua quoted Ni Guangnan, the leader of China's official OS development alliance, as saying, "We hope to...