'Everybody wants one' Apple's iPhone 16 hits Indonesia stores after months-long ban


JAKARTA (AFP) : Smartphone buyers were cheered by shopkeepers in Jakarta on Friday after Apple's latest smartphone went on sale following a monthslong ban in Indonesia.

The marketing and sale of iPhone 16 models was prohibited by the government in October over Apple's failure to meet regulation requiring that 40 percent of smartphone components be made from local parts.

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