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candle_86
Vladd lots of companies have rules, I worked for one previously that if you brought your phone into work, it must be an Android, with the companies management software installed, otherwise it wasn't allowed inside the secure area, aka inside the gate. 

This is also China, but in the western world, discrimination is.

Denying someone employment based upon
Realigion
Race
Sex
Disability
Creed

Things not protected
How you dress, what phone you use, your appearance, your voice, the color of your hair. Anything that is considered a personal choice outside of your faith is not protected from discrimination. 

I think what vlad is on about is off work time. The chinese company is stating you can not have a iphone 7 at all. Not at work or home. You can not purchase it.

First, you would have to argue whether or not the company even has a way of knowing that you have an iPhone 7 at home.  But, that argument aside, companies may be able to restrict what you do when you are not at work.  Some companies restrict what you are able to do or how you represent yourself when away from work.  Those companies can and do fire employees for being lewd, vulgar, or not conducting themselves in a professional way when in public, or can and do restrict the use of drugs or alcohol when off the job either in totality or within a number of hours of work, or may punish or terminate an employee for voicing controversial beliefs to the media or posting controversial things on social media when not at work, or may fire an employee for defaming their employer or defaming an advertiser when among friends or with the public while not at work, etc., etc..  Unfortunately, depending on your employer and your contract with your employer, the employer may be able to restrict what you do when you are away from work.  Whether they have a way to find out about your actions is another thing. 
 
The point is, when you choose to enter a contract, you are bound by that contract until the contract has either expired, both parties have agreed to amend or end the contract, or one of the parties has breached the contract.  Employment can often be part of a contract.
 
The premise is that some companies are not allowing employees to own iPhone 7 phones.  And then the claim is made that this must be illegal or must be some sort of violation.  The problem is that we have to assume that since only certain companies are adopting this policy, that in all probability they must have legal authority to adopt such a policy under their specific employee contracts or labor laws.  Thus, we have to assume that this cannot possibly be illegal nor is a violation of any human right.  To assume that it is illegal or is a violation would require proof which has not been furnished.  Without proof, I would have to say "you are probably wrong.  Have a good day!".

stalinx20
 
And who knows what kind of problems the Iphone7 will have...

According to an analysis performed by Cellular Insights, both devices perform equally well if you have a strong signal, but the Intel modem (XMM7360, pictured at top) drops off significantly as signal strength weakens. Cellular Insights tested multiple LTE bands (Band 4, 7, and 12) in a 4×2 MIMO configuration. The graph below is from Band 4, which Cellular Insights describes as the most common band for North America LTE deployments.

RSRP is a measure of LTE signal strength and is expected to range from ~-75dBm when measured directly on top of a cellular base site to -120dBm at the edge of coverage. What we see here is that the Intel modem can’t sustain the same throughput as the Qualcomm device, particularly at the -105dBm threshold. At -115dBm, the gap between the Intel and Qualcomm modems is roughly 2x — meaning the Qualcomm device is sustaining about twice the network throughput on the same signal strength.