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How does sourcing in China require you to sell to the Chinese market? I don't see how Apple could be compelled to open their iCloud to the Chinese government if
by pluma 8y ago
How does sourcing in China require you to sell to the Chinese market? I don't see how Apple could be compelled to open their iCloud to the Chinese government if they're not operating iCloud in China and don't directly have Chinese customers.
- simonh 8y agoChina requires that the services be operated from within China and requires government access to the data centres. I suspect this is one of the driving forces behind Apples efforts to do as much AI Balts is on the device, and employ encryption and advanced anonymising methods on data that is transmitted to the back end.
- pluma 8y agoYes, as I said, sourcing from China doesn't mean you have to sell your products in the Chinese market. If the only way to be an iCloud user in China is to trick Apple into thinking you're not in China, Apple can't recognise Chinese users and thus can't help the government spy on them. Apple presumably doesn't provide iCloud in markets that the US has a trade embargo against, so why wouldn't they voluntarily abstain from providing it in China where it's not possible to provide the service without co-operating with the Chinese government to subvert their users' privacy. I'm not saying that Apple should do this. I'm saying that it's dishonest to claim Apple's hands are tied. Unless the Chinese government is using the supply chain as leverage to force Apple to provide it access regardless of whether or not Apple intends to provide services in China, whether Apple is using China as supplier or not is irrelevant.