> Naive is not something I would associate with Apple, but I guess they have seen it now. It wasn’t just Apple who was naïve, it was the entirety of US and Eu

> Naive is not something I would associate with Apple, but I guess they have seen it now. It wasn’t just Apple who was naïve, it was the entirety of US and European foreign policy too. Do you want to claim that the west didn’t expect political liberalization in China. That article doesn’t change anything. Apple didn’t go into China thinking they were helping to strengthen an authoritarian regime. They went in thinking they were helping to liberalize it. We all, Apple included, got played.