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They do have a privacy busting business model in China. It's called selling a $1000+ device advertising its privacy features, and then handing over iCloud to a
by cromwellian 8y ago
They do have a privacy busting business model in China. It's called selling a $1000+ device advertising its privacy features, and then handing over iCloud to a PLA owned company. They effectively sacrificed their own principles to stay in the Chinese market.
Do we really believe that the way to circumvent all of China's internal internet control is for someone to just buy an iPhone? There are Uighurs in Xingjiang who own iPhones right now. Should they believe that iMessage in China is end-to-end secure and not worry that the government can obtain access? Based on the assurances of Tim Cook?
- briandear 8y agoiCloud is an optional feature.
- cromwellian 8y agoTrue, but if you believe the marketing hype as a Chinese user, you might be suckered into using it, believing it would protect you better than WeChat did. The point is, Apple sells Privacy everywhere as their brand, but in China, has deprived their users of most means of attaining it, either by making their own offerings less secure, or by banning from their App Store, any third party apps that could let their users have privacy from the government. And then Tim Cook went to China and praised the government for it's vision of an open internet: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/12/04/apple-ceo-backs-chinas-vision-of-an-open-internet-as-censorship-reaches-new-heights/?utm_term=.39ef487daf9b https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/12/04... A lot of excuses being made for Apple not living up to their principles in China and kowtowing to the almighty dollar (or renminbi in this circumstance)