Indonesia Keeps iPhone 16 Sales Ban - MOSK: 01.09.2025

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🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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0:00.0	This is MacOS Ken.
0:08.8	Two Apple processors from the Arizona TSM plant,
0:13.0	a billion dollars will not lift the Indonesia iPhone ban
0:16.9	and no, that is not Baldersgate 3 in the app store.
0:22.0	It is Thursday, the 9th of January 2025.
0:25.3	I'm Ken Ray, and this is news from MacOS Ken.
0:30.7	Brought to you by yours truly and supported by people like you,
0:35.6	patrons through Patreon.
0:38.2	Find out more than your support at patreon.com slash macOS can.
0:47.1	It looks like there are two Apple processors currently coming out of TSM's Arizona facility.
1:00.0	Over in his Culpium website, indie journalist Tim Culpin says the fab is now producing systems in package for Apple Watch. That's in addition to the A16 being cranked out in the desert.
1:07.0	This is according to Secret People. Secret people, reminding you that two people can keep a
1:15.9	secret if one of them is dead. So it's been a few weeks since we did the whole Indonesia story.
1:25.1	Let's catch up, shall we? Previously, on macOS can. This past fall, Apple was
1:32.0	roughly $15 million short on required investments in Indonesia, prompting the country to ban the
1:38.4	sale of the iPhone 16 line. Apple offered an investment of $10 million US, then., then up that to $100 million U.S., an offer
1:48.1	Indonesia declined. Instead, the country urged Apple to immediately set up a production facility
1:53.9	or factory in Indonesia. In the first part of December, a minister in the Indonesian government
2:00.0	indicated that the government
2:01.2	there expected Apple to offer a billion dollars in investment soon, restarting iPhone 16 sales.
2:10.0	Well, they got the first part right anyway. A piece on Wednesday from Ejean's France Press
2:15.6	says Apple has pledged to invest a billion dollars in the country.
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