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Apple Pulls WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, and Threads From App Store in China Following Order
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The difference in attitude is quite clear, when it’s China, a country where you have the majority of your products made, you bow to any demands no questions asked and instantly, but someone like the EU where you only sell products you block, question, deliberately do all you can to sarcasticly abide by the laws and regulations, and in fact work in ways to still breach them but make yourself lots of money.
China by far has the weakest employee rights and laws, and is cheap, but efficient and good quality. But China means bigger profits at the end of the day.
China is the 2nd largest economy in the world, Apple will keep kissing up to the CCP ofcourse like everybody else does.
This is in the ‘political news’ section so under the rules I believe those comments are allowed? If not can a mod advise so I can remove my posts?
We just presume the world is getting more and more open and information free. Little by little, those in power fear the information at the fingertips of the people. Sad to see voices being hushed in any way possible.. even if by simply disallowing apps that promote community speech.
Every country controls speech and communication. Period.
Apple bends over backwards for China. It's a key growth market and they will ALWAYS do what China says. Same with Google. I'm not fond of totalitarianism but I enjoy seeing cocky companies being humbled by China.
Opening up platforms in the EU is the exact OPPOSITE of what’s happening In China.People celebrating EUs control must be super excited about this too?
Because it backs up to chinese icloud servers where the state got the keys. Kind of: "yeah, whatever, sending is end-to-end encrypted, but we just get the text after it was sent"
It's not like Apple got lots of choices here, but it's kind of ironic that the supposedly free market "forces" them to comply with not so free countries.
Manufacturing in [Mainland] China is not the same as selling product in [Mainland] China. While it’s not in Apple’s best interest, I’m sure that Chinese government would be more than happy if Apple stop selling the products in China as long as Apple retained its Chinese manufacturing base.
Restricting certain apps in China is based on a very firm orders from the Chinese government, which would have implications for the sale of Apple products in China. I don’t see how it has anything to do with Chinese manufacturing.
From Apple perspective, restricting the sale of third-party apps is an easy call. The situation with the EU and the DOJ are the exact opposite, Where the governments are trying to force Apple to reduce restrictions on third-party apps.
Restricting certain apps in China is based on a very firm orders from the Chinese government, which would have implications for the sale of Apple products in China. I don’t see how it has anything to do with Chinese manufacturing.
From Apple perspective, restricting the sale of third-party apps is an easy call. The situation with the EU and the DOJ are the exact opposite, Where the governments are trying to force Apple to reduce restrictions on third-party apps.
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The price of doing business in certain parts of the world. Follow their rules or get out, its as simple as that.
No actually. For the region, the Chinese employee rights and laws are actually stronger than average, but the labour is also significantly more costly than average for the region. However, the infrastructure and availability of skilled labour is excellent, the supply chain is the best in the world, and the results are efficiently made and good quality products, at a moderate (not cheap) manufacturing price.
15 years ago in China the labour was much cheaper relatively speaking, but it is no longer 15 years ago. Pay scales have soared in China in the past 2 decades.
Nothing in your post makes sense. Apple has no choice in China as it has everything to lose. China is a dictatorship that wants to block all Western influences.
The EU on the other hand is a democracy where Apple has the freedom to propose, react, evaluate, negotiate, lobby, correct, go to court, appeal, … And most important: the EU does not want to get rid off American companies, but limit the stronghold of gatekeepers on specific markets and platforms.
So one is governmental meddling, the other is not?
Yeah, the ones from the CCP; and I’m happy not not have them. I hope they do the same thing with security cameras. However I would not expect any European tech to be banned in US (I’m referring only to phones).
There is no difference! Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it! Except it will be too late for you to do anything about it! Apple knows what is going on with the EU, they learned it all too well with China!
China has Apple’s advanced data protection though which means nobody from the CPC or Apple can read your backups or iMessages in the cloud.