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I gotta say this is a pretty weak move on apples part. If apple really wants to be a cultural force, hard decisions must be made. Bowing to any government leade
by S_A_P 7y ago
I gotta say this is a pretty weak move on apples part. If apple really wants to be a cultural force, hard decisions must be made. Bowing to any government leader in any country is a slippery slope.
- ir77 7y agothe problem is that even if i had a knee jerk reaction (i slightly did ;) ) and said 1)i should take a stance against apple 2) google is not an alternative -- what are my options? i can try to hack together some lineageOS device or something else, which will ruin the camera experience for me -- probably the most important feature of my smartphone for me. on top of that, i'll still have to rely on google for map /traffic data as i'm not aware of any other well established alternatives -- but what's worse is that i'm still in the USA and while google shows me a free and liberated map of a world it obviously can be showing someone in russia/iran/china something completely different and 'local' to them. how does one really fight this?
- soperj 7y agohere maps. It's nokia. They're great. Not quite as good as google's offering, but better than apples.
- reaperducer 7y agoHow does it handle the Crimea question?
- ilkkao 7y agoIt was Nokia to be precise. Nokia sold it to AUDI, BMW and Daimler in 2015
- soperj 7y agoMissed that some how. Thanks. Looks like other have come on board as well now.
- pjc50 7y agoApple doesn't want to be a cultural force. Apple want to sell phones. They have to comply with local law to do so. Doing otherwise is "bias" and "politics". Now, you may argue that Apple should be biased towards the Western view of the world, and have its own politics of national recognition, but there is substantial pushback against big tech companies having a political bias.