China to subsidise smartphone purchases in bid to lift spending

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• flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ah, the myth of infinite growth again. I guess the majority of Chinese people have a smartphone by now, why would they constantly buy new ones

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  • qyron@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The government says, they do.

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• hark@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If it works like subsidies over here, companies will just jack up prices to eat up the full subsidy.

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• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They want to push Apple out of their domestic market is what they’re trying to so because an iPhone is still a status symbol compared to Huawei or any phone really.

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• dukethorion@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I bet they are all on HarmonyOS…

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