iPhones still purchasable for sale in China: Apple

Apple Inc (AAPL.O) said its iPhone 6 and 6 Plus were still accessible available to be purchased in China in the wake of Beijing's protected innovation controllers banned their business saying the outlines had encroached a patent held by a Chinese organization. 

"We requested a managerial request from a provincial patent tribunal in Beijing a month ago and subsequently the request has been stayed pending survey by the Beijing IP Court," Apple said in an announcement on Friday. 

The notification, dated May 19, banning offers of certain iPhone models in Beijing was posted on a Chinese government site. (bit.ly/1S9rc6T) 

The Chinese business sector is key to Apple, driving a greater amount of its deals than some other locale outside the United States. In any case, the tech goliath has confronted more prominent investigation there as of late, with its online book and film administrations hindered by Chinese controllers not long ago. 

Apple verifiably had appreciated positive treatment in China, however Beijing's crackdown on the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus is an update that the tech mammoth is not insusceptible to the examination that different U.S. tech firms have since quite a while ago confronted in the nation, said examiner Colin Gillis of BGC Partners. 

"There's an assortment of dangers of having reliance on deals in China to Apple, and government mediation in whatever structure is one of them," he said. 

A month ago, Apple reported that it would put $1 billion in Chinese ride-hailing firm Didi Chuxing, a move that was broadly seen as an endeavor to shore up relations in China.