So Apple should just close down and stop selling products? Because that would be the inevitable result of pulling out of China.
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Apple Pulls WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, and Threads From App Store in China Following Order
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So Apple should just close down and stop selling products? Because that would be the inevitable result of pulling out of China.
Foxconn is HQed in Taiwan but does most of its manufacturing, including of iPhones, in mainland China.
The Eu is trying to turn iOS and make it act like lagdroid.
That's changing..
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Name-calling, argument-lacking opinion detected. If you can't articulate exactly what makes iOS behave like Android then this is meaningless.
Who is name calling? It’s a (crappy) Os lol. It’s not like I’m calling a person a name. That’s a tad dramatic.
Yoh have the Choice to go to lagdroid. iOS shouldn’t be forced to Behave like lagdroid because you don’t want to go use an inferior Os. Making it work like it and trying to force apple to bring its software like iMessage and FaceTime to lagdroid is ridiculous.
In fact, demanding apple to bring iMessage to lagdroid when SMS has always worked, RCS is coming and there are tons of messaging apps is no different than china forcing apple to remove apps. I
Both are government overstepping.
It's even less valid as saying that the US is a third-world s***hole just because companies lobby the government and make people's lives worse.
(Oops, I hit a language barrier. Embarrassing.) Still, the fact you're saying "lagdroid" but refusing to elaborate further doesn't exactly validate your point.
China & EU is ”freedom”. Got it.
(Orwell where art thou?)
The day that Apple finds a way to distance themselves from China will be the day that will be remembered for generations
if only one could install any app without overarching co control and blessing from apple... oh wait, it comes to the UE ❤️🤩
hahaha, yeah, right... apple... that cares only about it's bottomline will definitely do that 🤣
hahaha, yeah, right... apple... that cares only about it's bottomline will definitely do that 🤣
And that's Apple's fault. Apple could have specified any country for manufacture, including the US.
But no, China was cheaper, gotta protect those profit margins at all costs, right?
A moot point because they were already blocked by all the Internet service providers. Also any Chinese users that didn't want all their iCloud data syphoned up by The Party would have already set up foreign Apple IDs years ago. funnily enough when I arrived in China in 2012 I could still use Google there and it was only after the umbrella movement that Instagram was blocked in China. (Edit: damn that was nearly a decade ago now!)
Perhaps because these are apps that Apple makes available in the App Store, and not the App Store itself (as in the EU)?
Just some slight differences.
If the owners of WhatsApp, Telegram, Signals and Threads were to take the Chinese gov't to court, that would be comparable with what happened in the EU. Apple is the middle man here.
You forgot appeasement and isolationism. Just sayin'. But, yes, this doesn't look good at all.
If you start a company would you go with a less proven and more expensive production method?
There are always challenges when you want to succeed. Very few companies do.