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Apple isn‘t simply running iCloud locally as the law may require. They have transferred the operations of their entire iCloud service to a government owned comp
by fauigerzigerk 6y ago
Apple isn‘t simply running iCloud locally as the law may require. They have transferred the operations of their entire iCloud service to a government owned company, including all keys.
What Apple does in China is more than complying with local laws. They appear to be exceptionally proactive in staying in the regime‘s good graces.
- jhugo 6y agoRunning cloud services in China requires establishing a JV with a local partner. Look at AWS China as another example of this, but there are many. Can you provide a reference for Apple's JV partners being government owned? Any company in China of course has to do as the Party tells them to, so I guess the difference is largely academic, but I haven't seen it mentioned before that Apple's China partners are government-owned.
- fauigerzigerk 6y agoThis is what was reported at the time: https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/17/apples-icloud-user-data-in-china-is-now-handled-by-a-state-owned-mobile-operator https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/17/apples-icloud-user-data-in... There are conflicting reports and vague language around how exactly the keys are handled.
- jhugo 6y agoThanks for the link, very interesting.