China excluded Apple products from government procurement list, what is the reason?

ByNelson Wu

The Chinese governmentExclude Symantec and Kaspersky from software procurement company list that uses public money to procureIt turned out that it was made clear that products such as Apple's iPad and MacBook were also excluded from the list.

China Said to Exclude Apple From Procurement List - Bloomberg
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-06/china-said-to-exclude-apple-from-procurement-list.html

Government officials revealed on condition of anonymity that a total of 10 products including iPad, iPad mini, MacBook Pro etc are excluded from the government procurement list updated in August due to security concerns It is said that this change will apply to all of the Communist Party Central Organization Department, government ministries and local governments. It is also made clear that these products were included in the list as of July this year.

The Chinese government has already excluded Symantec and Kaspersky from the list of software procurement companies, and only the domestic software vendors are registered in the list. In addition, in May 2014Decided to ban the use of 'Windows 8' within the governmentAnd it seems that there is a conflict between China and the United States over hacking and cyber intelligence activities in the background. It is a national broadcasting station in July 2014China Central Television NetworkReported that "the risk of leakage of national confidential information is increased by using the iPhone," an incident occurred that Apple denied this.

ByFilippo Minelli

About this Chinese government's decisionUOB Keihan SecuritiesMark Po, Hong Kong analyst, said, "We will send some kind of signal to domestic enterprises and semi-administrative agencies.The government wants to make foreign companies have no big influence in China It seems to be like that. "

There is no doubt that the Chinese government has strong concern about information leakage related to computers and smartphones,Chinese Academy of SciencesAnd other "OSS" developed for the multi-platform OS "COS(China Operating System) "has been announced.

China's own operating system "China Operating System" will be announced - GIGAZINE


The next revision date of the government procurement list is January 2015. According to government officials, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Chinese manufacturer Lenovo are still included in the list even now.

Apple's spokesman refused to comment on Bloomberg's interview on this matter. China Treasury Department andNational Development and Reform Commission of People's Republic of ChinaI have also not responded to the interview with Fax.