{"id":153275,"date":"2014-08-07T22:38:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T22:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2014\/08\/07\/china-bans-apple-products-for-officials\/"},"modified":"2014-08-07T22:38:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T22:38:12","slug":"china-bans-apple-products-for-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2014\/08\/07\/china-bans-apple-products-for-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"China bans Apple products for officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/>China has excluded Apple from a list of products that can be bought with public money because of security concerns, media reports said.<br \/>\nApple products like iPad and MacBooks were omitted from a final government procurement list distributed in July. These products were on the list till June.<br \/>\nThe Apple exclusion makes it the fourth major foreign company to face hurdles in the Chinese market.<br \/>\nChina has recently told government departments to stop buying antivirus software from US firm Symantec Corp and Russian firm Kaspersky Lab.<br \/>\nMicrosoft Windows 8 was also excluded from government purchases in May, 2014.<br \/>\nThe iphone was saved from the ban because smartphone purchases are not included in the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has excluded Apple from a list of products that can be bought with public money because of security concerns, media reports said. Apple products like iPad and MacBooks were omitted from a final government procurement list distributed in July. These products were on the list till June. The Apple exclusion makes it the fourth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[667],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}