Apple is a hypocrite (and so are we)

And the author is a massive hypocrite too.

> Apple seem to suggest that their engagement will make the local people happier.

> We recognize that Chinese aren’t going to be Gorbacheved.

Did anybody follow what happened to regular citizens of the Soviet Union after it broke apart? Economy output cut by half per capital, life expectation reduced drastically. And freedom in some of the republic got much worse as they became absolute dictatorships. And this guy speak like it was some glorious event for the people.

Presumably, on his moral high horse, he would agree that the democratic government of Iraq was a massive improvement over Saddam Hussein? But such judgement should be left to the Iraqi people, and last I have checked they are not exactly happy with what happened to them in the last decade and half.

Apple's P.R. is very effective at painting their totalitarian lust for control over their platform as a pro-user, pro- freedom stance, when in reality they are very much like China in their tenets.

when faced with an adversary they simply cannot manipulate into submission, like they do to Western democracies, they cower and roll over to the side of money.

When Apple's fanatical fans defend their actions as "complying with Chinese law", they're merely regurgitating the messaging Apple's Juggernaut of a P.R. machine has programmed them with.

I too remember the American worker demanding production be outsourced to China. /s

Now that this has resulted in the choice to live like the Amish or buy Chinese goods, he is a hypocrite for choosing the latter. How convenient that multinationals that drive US trade policy, and ordinary workers, both fall under the author's 'we' umbrella.