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苹果折叠机设计类似三星Galaxy Z Fold 8凤凰网科技讯 北京时间8月24日，彭博社知名苹果记者马克·古尔曼(Mark Gurman)周日发文称，中国占据了全球折叠屏手机出货量的一半以上，赢得这里消费者的青睐至关重要。古尔曼表示，9月9日前后发布的折叠屏iPhone将是苹果这几年来最令人期待的新品。不过，他在文中也谈到了苹果折叠屏手机面临的一些挑战，比如超过2000美元的高售价，缺少长焦镜头，使用Touch ID指纹识别而不是现在iPhone标配的人脸识别。他尤其提到了中国市场。

B | 古尔曼称，赢得中国消费者的青睐是另一个重要考验，因为中国可能成为该设备最重要的市场之一。古尔曼指出，折叠屏手机在全球范围内仍属于小众产品，2025年仅占智能手机出货量的约1.6%。

C |     Canberra, Oct 11 (UNI) Two Australian men have been charged with bribing Sri Lankan officials to secure infrastructure contracts worth millions of dollars.
Australian police arrested the pair last month after a decade-long investigation spanning several countries, BBC reported.
The men, aged 67 and 71, worked for a company which has been accused of misconduct in South Asian countries, it said.
They are yet to respond to the charges and will face court.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) say the men arranged bribes of more than A$304,000 ($190,000) to government officials between 2009 and 2016.
The bribes were allegedly made in the pursuit of two Sri Lankan projects -- which police did not name -- worth A$14m.
The charges follow an investigation into SMEC International Pty Ltd, an Australian-based engineering firm, which involved authorities from the US, Canada, India and elsewhere, the BBC reported.
More arrests and charges are possible, the AFP said.
"Corruption undermines fair competition and can have disastrous consequences for developing economies, global anti-poverty and development efforts," Detective Supt Helen Schneider said.
Originally known as the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corp, SMEC was formed in 1949 to build an iconic Australian infrastructure project. It has since grown to employ 5,400 staff in many countries.
In 2017, the World Bank temporarily barred SMEC and four subsidiaries in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka from bidding for any of its contracts, the report said.
The World Bank said it had discovered evidence linking the company to suspected "inappropriate payments" in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
At the time, a spokesperson for SMEC said the allegations did not relate to any Australian projects, and that the company would continue to strengthen its corporate integrity compliance programmes.
Protests erupted in Sri Lanka this year over corruption allegations and the country's worst economic crisis in history, it said.
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D | 但中国市场的情况截然不同。去年，中国占全球折叠屏手机出货量的一半以上，销量超过1000万部。

E | 换句话说，仅中国市场购买的折叠屏手机数量，就超过了全球其他地区的总和。这使得折叠屏iPhone对苹果而言尤为重要。苹果一直在寻找能够在中国引起共鸣的产品，因为当地竞争对手在更为积极地探索新设计，尤其是华为。古尔曼称，中国市场的许多消费者追求两样东西：一是吸引眼球的硬件设计，二是高端设备所带来的身份象征。他认为，折叠屏iPhone应该能够同时满足这两方面需求。(作者/箫雨)更多一手新闻，欢迎下载凤凰新闻客户端订阅凤凰网科技。想看深度报道，请微信搜索“凤凰网科技”。