If Apple were forced to eliminate the Chinese app WeChat, which also ended up in the crosshairs of the Trump administration, from its app store, iPhone shipments could decrease by up to 25-30%. The analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, an expert of the Cupertino company, predicts this in a note reported by the technological site MacRumors.
"WeChat has become a daily necessity in China, integrating functions such as messaging, payments, e-commerce, social networking, news and productivity," writes Kuo. So if WeChat were banned from Apple's app store on a global scale, including China, "annual iPhone shipments would drop by 25-30% and annual shipments of other Apple devices including AirPods, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac. they would be reduced by 15-25% ".
The analyst makes more optimistic predictions in the event that WeChat is eliminated only from the US App Store. In this case, iPhone deliveries would be negatively impacted by 3-6%, and other products by 3%.
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