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Wouldn't dare do that in China funny enough.

• akmarinov 3y ago
  China won't care - they have competing products, they have Apple by the balls manufacturing-wise, they don't have free speech or democracy and don't fear any fallout from their people - they can do whatever they want. Europe doesn't have any of that.
  • EGreg 3y ago
    Europe still has free speech? https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/07/07/europes-freedom-of-speech-fail/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/07/07/europes-freedom-of-spee... UK? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r7GRx8Sl-s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r7GRx8Sl-s I would say may countries are moving to ban end-to-end encryption, which will lead to less free speech even privately: https://community.qbix.com/t/the-coming-war-on-end-to-end-encryption/214 https://community.qbix.com/t/the-coming-war-on-end-to-end-en...
    • madsbuch 3y ago
      Funny, at least you won't get killed by the police ;)
      • rvnx 3y ago
        Free speech in Europe, yes, but don't offend minorities and don't ask any questions, you can (actually) go to jail for that. And free to speak about anything allowed, if the website isn't blocked at DNS-level.
  • c0n5pir4cy 3y ago
    I mean, Europe has competing products. Apple doesn't even have the highest market share here compared to the US - that's actually Samsung¹ although Apple briefly overtook Samsung in sales in Q4 2023. ¹ https://www.statista.com/statistics/632599/smartphone-market-share-by-vendor-in-europe/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/632599/smartphone-market...
  • zarzavat 3y ago
    Apple doesn’t have the upper hand here. Apple talk a good talk but if Cook actually attempted to pull out of the EU market he would be facing some very angry shareholders. So realistically Apple have to do what the EU wants. The timetable is TBD though.