Rostec employees are transferred to Russian AYYA smartphones after the ban on iPhone

Rostec employees are transferred to Russian smartphones after the introduction of a ban on the use of the iPhone in state corporations. This became known on September 6, 2023.

Priority is given to models of Russian manufacturers. Including employees are switching to smartphones of our own brand AYYA, - a representative of Rostec told Vedomosti.

AYYA T1 smartphone

According to him, the restrictions affected the use of not only smartphones, but also tablets and laptops from Apple. The ban on the use of Apple equipment by officials and employees of Russian state corporations began to be announced after the June warning of the FSB about the disclosure of a US intelligence action using the virus on mobile devices of this company. According to the intelligence service, "several thousand" iPhones have become infected with malicious software. In particular, the FSB revealed anomalies "characteristic only of Apple mobile phone users and due to the work of previously unknown software."

Apparently, Rostec employees are being transferred to the AYYA T1 model, which works on a protected domestic operating system Aurora"." From several hundred to 2000 AYYA T1 smartphones are used by law enforcement officers and Rosatom"," a source close to retailers told the publication. The interlocutor noted that in the retail market AYYA T1 (on OS Android 11) is in low demand. From October 2021 to March 2023, retailers sold only 905 such smartphones, or 18% of the total supplies from Chinese factories where the phone is assembled, the newspaper notes.

They plan to replace the iPhone not only with Russian developments, like Rostec. For example, employees of the Ministry of Industry and Trade "have the right to use equipment based on Android and other operating systems," a spokesman for the department told Vedomosti.^[1]

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