 And just to give you an idea of how popular they were, near our New York Times office in Beijing, Apple had to cancel its launch one year because the mobs waiting in the freezing weather threatened to get out of hand. That was in 2013. But by 2016, Xi Jinping, China's leader, had been in power for three years, and he wanted to limit the power of Apple's phones because they were American. He wanted Chinese consumers to buy more.