>An iPhone not bought is a Huawei phone that is People outside of China aren't going to buy Huawei phones, partly because Huawei is being banned from western n

>An iPhone not bought is a Huawei phone that is People outside of China aren't going to buy Huawei phones, partly because Huawei is being banned from western nations as we speak. Android phones are not really substitutes for iPhones, customers demand iPhones specifically so that doesn't really make sense. >As for iMessage and all that Apple has an agreement to host special China iCloud services. China mandates data localization for Chinese user data, that doesn't change anything about iMessage and FaceTime's end-to-end encryption. >Without American soybeans China just mandates less protein in feed. As if biological machinery doesn’t care about politics. When China stops buying soybeans from the US, it hurts American farmers. They are substituting them with soybeans from Brazil. But harming Apple isn't just harming American interests, it also harms their own. That's why Apple is pretty safe from any retaliation.