Technology Morning Scent: Apple Smartphones listed in February, China Unicom into BATJ era

1, Apple Smart Speaker HomePad listed on February 9, China missed the starting

Apple officially announced that HomePod will be listed on Friday, February 9 and booked on Friday, January 26. However, the first HomePod only for the United States, Britain, Australia, three countries, including Apple and Best Buy, some distributors This spring, landing in France, Germany, other markets to be determined.

HomePod in the United States priced 349 yuan, while in the United Kingdom, Australia, the price has not been announced.

Comments: It is said that the world's first shipment of only 1 million, but the price is not cheap, but brings the black technology is looking forward to.

2, China Unicom's Board of Directors proposed to advance advance from 7 to 13 people, BATJ across the board to enter

China Unicom announced on the evening of the 23rd that the board of directors and board of supervisors plan to advance the general election and the board of directors plans to expand from seven to thirteen.

Among them, there are eight non-independent director candidates, namely Wang Xiaochu, Lu Yimin, Li Fushen, Yin Zhaojun, Lu Shan, Li Yanhong, Liao Jianwen and Hu Xiaoming. Five candidates for independent directors are Feng Shidong, Wu Xiaogen, Lu Tingjie, Chen Jianxin, .

Comments: Unicom 2018 will have a big move, but I followed the mobile number for more than 10 years, could not bear to change ah, waiting for your new policy.

3, Apple sued Qualcomm EU or imposed a huge fine worldwide

The EU is preparing to impose sanctions on Qualcomm, saying it abuses its market dominance and that exclusionary clauses have made it impossible for Apple to use only Qualcomm's baseband chips in handsets and tablets manufactured between 2011 and 2016.

According to informed sources, the EU antitrust agency will be announced Wednesday Qualcomm, the world's largest provider of baseband chips, providing all the communication chips required by the latter to Apple in 2011 and 2016, a detriment to competition And innovation.

By the end of October 2017, China Unicom completed the non-public share offering of about 9 billion shares and successfully introduced investors China Life Insurance, Tencent Cinda, Baidu Penghuan, Jingdong Sanhong, Ali Venture Capital, Suning Cloud Business, Guangqi Internet, Huaihai Ark, Xingquan Fund.

The EU move to punish Qualcomm while preventing such incidents from happening again and fine of 10% of annual sales.For Qualcomm, the amount of fines will be up to 2 billion US dollars.

Such a verdict will provide legal endorsement for Apple, which now sues Qualcomm globally, and from Beijing to California, Apple sued Qualcomm for its 'exclusion policy and excessive royalties,' which made Apple spend more in the past few years Billions of dollars.

Comments: There is news that Apple will not use any Qualcomm chips in the next generation of iPhone, which may really have been intolerable, is not it?

4, 2017 Q4 Apple iPhone X shipped 29 million units worldwide, with China accounting for 7 million units

Research firm Canalys released data report, in Q4 2017 quarter, Apple iPhone X shipments of 29 million units worldwide, is the quarter's highest volume of smart phones shipped.

Canalis analyst Ben Stanton said: "iPhone X was impressive in the fourth quarter for a smart phone that started at $ 999, but the shipments were still slightly below the industry expectations."

Comments: not all have to stop saying it? But recently the price really amazing!

5. China responded that the United States set limits on large washing machines: strong dissatisfaction

The U.S. Trade Representative Office announced on the 22nd that with the approval of President Trump, the United States will take a four-year and a three-year global safeguards on imported photovoltaic products and large washing machines respectively.

In response to the United States' announcement of restrictions on the import of photovoltaic products and large washing machines, Wang Hejun, director of the Trade Remedy Investigation Bureau of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, said on the 23rd that China strongly resented it and would resolutely defend its rights with other WTO members.

In the washing machine industry, the first year will impose a 20% tariff on the first 1.2 million large washing machines imported and the tax rate will be reduced to 18% and 16% in the second and third years. For the imported washing machines that exceed this limit, the first year A 50% tariff will be levied and the tax rate will be reduced to 45% and 40% in the second and third years respectively.

Analysts from the U.S. media said South Korea and Mexico will suffer the most from tariffs on washing machines. Both countries export large numbers of washing machines to the United States, most of which are products of South Korean giants Samsung and LG. They expect the Korean companies to suffer an impact The most serious.

Comments: This matter has been removed for several years now.

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