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It's all marketing. Apple is a company not a country. If Apple ups the ante on China, then China comes down and bans the App Store or tariffs Apple devices a t
by siruncledrew 7y ago
It's all marketing. Apple is a company not a country.
If Apple ups the ante on China, then China comes down and bans the App Store or tariffs Apple devices a ton as retribution - resulting in Apple getting itself into a similar situation Huawei is in with the US. If (this is all hypothetical, btw) that were to happen with Apple, then I would wager Xiaomi or Huawei would only see more investment to become the "Apple of China" and further develop a replica in-house app store.
- im3w1l 7y agoApple put themselves in a position where they had the power to clamp down. Obviously they will then be forced to use this power. By western governments, by outrage mobs, by China. By their own choices and strategy of centralizing power they decided to become a fascist enabler.
- mattnewton 7y agoI honestly think you are vastly overestimating the power a foreign company is capable of having in China. Any provocation would probably quickly end up in iPhones simply not getting any service in the country anymore and being banned from sale with no legal recourse.
- polynomial 7y agoI think GP is saying the opposite, namely that they set themselves up to be an enabler of state control, with their centralised gatekeeping model.