Perusers of the first couple’s holiday snaps from Mexico may have spotted this photo of Peng Liyuan using an iPhone (5?) to take a photo of her own at Chichen Itza.
Peng’s use of an iPhone is ironic for several reasons. As a famous proponent of Chinese brands Peng should really be using a GooPhone. At the very least, she shouldn’t be using an iPhone, considering the Chinese government’s prolonged campaign against Apple.
More important perhaps than any potential accusations of hypocrisy against Peng for being an Apple fangirl are the revelations published this week by the Guardian:
The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants, according to a top secret document obtained by the Guardian.
The first couple are so worried about their privacy that they are choosing to stay in a hotel away from the implicitly-bugged-to-kingdom-come Sunnyvale estate (where Xi will meet Barack Obama this weekend). These revelations about the NSA’s PRISM program will likely be of extreme concern to Xi, given that some spy at the NSA has likely read his sexts to his wife by now.
Most American flags are made in China, as well as the iPhone.
Then whats wrong if she used Iphone?Thats the trend this time..duhhh
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what about 'buy chinese' like the goofone mentioned in the story? or go without, letting underlings do the pic thing instead of acting like a tourist at Tulum
If the US Government has access to Google and Apple, that rules out Android and iOS.
They also work closely with Microsoft. That rules out Windows Phone.
There isn't much left, is there? Even the “GooPhone” uses Android.
The GooPhone uses Android.
So it's also monitored by PRISM.
thanks for the info. ok, she ought to commission the nation's engineers and computer experts to come up with something that the americans can't spy on; or just have her underlings take the pics with their own cameras and give her a print. if i were the head of state, or the spouse of one, i wouldn't be caught carrying a device taking pictures acting like a tourist