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When you work on software available globally, it's very normal to deploy or roll out features region-by-region. This seems par for the course.

• gtirloni 4y ago
  If they rolled it out to China first, that's a pretty huge region to start with if you want to test something isn't broken.
• 2muchcoffeeman 4y ago
  The article I linked says "The setting was reportedly added after protesters in the country used AirDrop to spread anti-government material." Most other articles also mention this. I'm not unconvinced this had nothing to do with the feature. I'm just pointing out that this was already in the works. This was not a fast reaction to the current protests. I don't think this is good. But Apple didn't just roll this out at a whim.
  • kelnos 4y ago
    I'm curious what they mean by "was reportedly added". "Reported" by whom? What is the source for this information? I think the timing and China-only bit is eyebrow-raising, but it'd be nice to know if this is just speculation, or if there's a credible source within Apple that's saying this is the reason why it was rolled out in China right now.
  • khazhoux 4y ago
    > The setting was reportedly added after protesters in the country used AirDrop to spread anti-government material "Event A happened after Event B", is the only thing we can infer from this.
• kelnos 4y ago
  Right, and usually you roll out first to a smaller region, perhaps in a place where you have customers you don't care about as much for some reason. I don't think China is that region.