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There are bookstores (both online and brick-and-mortar) with a large number of books approved for sale in China, so if Apple stuck to selling those books, it wo

• xigency 10y ago
  Fair enough. Apple needed to put more thought and effort into their launch if they were considering becoming a mainstay in a completely different political/cultural market. Others have pointed out that China's closure to outside (software) tech. has helped them as an incubator, but really I think American companies have failed to bend their policies to the degree necessary to continue to exist (in China). Google for a while has tried to resist censorship, but it's really a question of whether a company wants the one billion Chinese citizens to have access to their products at all, or if they would like to be shutout.