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Am I bring cynical? https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/28/apple-record-china-2021/ https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/28/apple-record-china-2021/ Apple's iPhone reven
by hungryforcodes 5y ago
Am I bring cynical?
https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/28/apple-record-china-2021/ https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/28/apple-record-china-2021/
Apple's iPhone revenu just doubled from last year in China -- now 17 billion. Thats not a small number. The play against Huawei has done it's job, apparently -- it's quite mortally injured.
For sure the CCP would love to scan everyone's phones for files or images it finds troubling and for sure every country will eventually be allowed to have its own entries in this database or even their own custom DB.
So my cynical side says...Apple just sold out. MASSIVELY. The loosers -- everyone pretty much that buys their phones.
- benzoate 5y agoThe CCP can already scan everything server side – iCloud encryption is weaker in China and the servers are controlled by a different entity than Apple. Getting iPhones to scan for illicit content doesn’t help the CCP.
- hungryforcodes 5y agoIf I keep all my data sequestered on my phone -- which I'm bound to do if I am privacy conscious -- then obviously scanning the phone benefits the CCP.