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> Assuming Craig Federighi didn't perjure himself, why has China seemingly made an exception for Apple when it comes to iMessage (or iOS or iCloud)? The answer
by abalone 9y ago
> Assuming Craig Federighi didn't perjure himself, why has China seemingly made an exception for Apple when it comes to iMessage (or iOS or iCloud)? The answer is that Apple is the only tech company that actually has leverage with the CPC in (indirectly) employing millions of workers in China.
Eh, there’s a simpler explanation: Basically bobody uses iMessage in China.
Employing people in China is only leverage is they can readily move production elsewhere (nope, not at that scale).
Not that it counts for nothing but the real issue here is iMessage is just a non issue for China.
- ksec 9y agoBut what happens if People start using it? It is like Whatsapp, it was allowed to use as long as it didn't reach a critical mass. So in some way Apple is praying imessages not succeed in China. I am glad the current privacy issues is not yet a problem in China. But someday Apple will have to deal with it, and unlike US where there is a system of Law to protect companies and Citizen, there isn't one in China. ( At least not by normal Western understanding of "Law" )
- abalone 9y agoThat is a very good question. I doubt they are praying for failure though.
- Twisell 9y agoIt all depend of China real motivation: -publicly they state that servers need to be in China because they don’t want to hand Chinese citizen data to foreign country. This is nowhere incompatible with iMessage - privately people suspect that China want to increase mass surveillance to a point even worse than what the USA was already doing with prism. If this is true yes iMessage is incompatible in the long run