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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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).
Maybe Apple shouldn't be in China then?
Apple doesn't toot their privacy horn in countries like China for a reason
Because Apple has no spine and routinely caves to pressure by the Chinese government?
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.
Apple doesn't love China in particular. It would gladly cripple protestor communications in the US if threatened, too.
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
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-...
That's an issue even Governments can't deal with, we can't expect Apple to be able to circumvent Chinese laws.
How about China blocking the sale of Apple products... possible/probable?