Apple's China Compliance

Discussions focus on Apple's concessions to Chinese government demands, such as censorship, data access for iCloud, and app store restrictions, to maintain business in China, often contrasted with their privacy stance elsewhere.

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Iolaum Sep 12, 2021 View on HN

I d be cautious of that approach given Apple's history in China. Your use case is a mirror image of it (Apple in China).

LunaSea Aug 5, 2022 View on HN

Maybe Apple shouldn't be in China then?

kkarakk May 24, 2019 View on HN

Apple doesn't toot their privacy horn in countries like China for a reason

computerex Oct 15, 2019 View on HN

Because Apple has no spine and routinely caves to pressure by the Chinese government?

JudasGoat Aug 7, 2021 View on HN

I am relatively sure that Apple has made concessions to the Chinese government to allow it's existence in the Chinese market. I would guess that other Governments might feel slighted if not offered the same access.

pessimizer Nov 29, 2022 View on HN

Apple doesn't love China in particular. It would gladly cripple protestor communications in the US if threatened, too.

blahgeek Dec 9, 2021 View on HN

I’m a Chinese. I’m glad that apple did this.While I want apple to keep its dignity as much as you do, I cannot change our government (we don’t get to vote, so we literally cannot). Given this situation, if apple don’t do these kind of things, worse case scenario, it get banned in china just like google and many others. As a user, apple products are still the most privacy protecting products I can buy and use in china. (For example, do you know that Chinese government forbids end to end encryp

GeekyBear Apr 7, 2018 View on HN

That is proof that Apple follows local laws. Just like every other American company doing business in China.For instance, Microsoft.https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/china/china-overview-...

caiob Jun 11, 2017 View on HN

That's an issue even Governments can't deal with, we can't expect Apple to be able to circumvent Chinese laws.

discordance May 16, 2019 View on HN

How about China blocking the sale of Apple products... possible/probable?