VietNamNet Bridge - Apple SIM is considered a technological breakthrough, but it could be an obstacle to mobile network operators’ business.

VietNamNet Bridge - Apple SIM is available in 140 countries, including regional countries, but not in Vietnam, as Apple SIM partners still cannot reach agreement with local mobile network operators.

“We now can hope the production of iPhone products will occur in Vietnam in the future, now that Vietnam makes Samsung phones,” said Vu Duc Quyet, director of the Bac Ninh provincial Industry and Trade Department.

Experts from the Bach Khoa Anti-virus Center (BKAV), the leading network security firm in Vietnam, have found signs showing that the tool used to jailbreak iPhone is capable of collecting information from iCloud accounts. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Many Vietnamese have expressed their disappointment about the newly marketed iPhone SE. Distributors think iPhone SE won’t cause a buying ‘fever’. 

Apple Inc forecast its first revenue drop in 13 years and reported the slowest-ever increase in iPhone shipments as the critical Chinese market showed signs of weakening, suggesting the technology company's period of exponential growth

 Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is expected to report iPhone sales increased slightly more than 1 percent in the holiday quarter when it announces earnings on Tuesday, its slowest growth ever and far from the double-digit growth investors have come to expect.

 Some of Apple Inc's main Asian suppliers expect revenues and orders to drop this quarter, indicating iPhone sales are almost certain to post their first annual decline since the flagship product was launched almost a decade ago.

VietNamNet Bridge - Apple Operations International (AOI), the owner of Apple Vietnam, has been involved in in the past in tax evasion scandals in the US and Ireland.

VietNamNet Bridge - If Apple considers Vietnam an important market in the future, it is very likely to set up stores, and if so, sales agents will be able to buy iPhones and iPads directly from Apple Vietnam instead of importing from Apple Singapore.

 Apple reported a jump in sales in the three months to September. The tech giant's revenue was $51.5bn, up 22% compared with the same period last year.

VietNamNet Bridge - Apple is reportedly following administrative procedures to set up a business in Vietnam. Opinions from well-informed circles say Apple has been working in Vietnam for about one year and has nearly 100 workers.

VietNamNet Bridge – The high-end smartphone market in Vietnam is now dominated by Samsung, Nokia and Apple.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese now would rather upgrade their smart phones with iOS 7.1 instead of maintaining the jailbreak iOS 7.0.

 VietNamNet Bridge - On the morning of January 7, the police of Ward 7, My Tho City, the southern province of Tien Giang, invited an old beggar who used an iPhone to the police station for investigation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Old iPhones and technology waste have been collected in developed countries and then carried to Shenzhen, China, where they are renewed before selling to Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Both iPad Air and mini iPad Retina have captivated the Vietnamese hi-tech fans’ community because of their fashionable designs.

 VietNamNet Bridge – It is quite a surprise that iPhone 5, which hit the market last year, not iPhone 5S or iPhone 5C, the latest models of Apple, is the best seller in Vietnam.

 Apple's shares climbed ahead of an expected move on Tuesday to expand the iPhone domain with a pair of new models, including one aimed at China.

 Apple has asked its Taiwan-based supplier to begin shipping two new versions of the iPhone next month, including a lower-cost model, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.