Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from China store under pressure from Beijing
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With sideloading, Apple customers could make their own decision on whether or not to make a stand. The sideloading ban takes that decision away from them and hands power directly to authoritarian regimes.
Phones made for the Mainland China market usually don't have Google Play or other Google stuff and there's lots of stuff that doesn't get published to Chinese app stores but isn't prohibited. You've got to sideload those apps, if you can find an apk.
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Not because they don't want to -- although as an American, I don't see what kind of goodwill this produces -- rather because they can't, the government simply won't allow it.
Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40083409
There's the Apple example, and the Hololive example.
This is like banning phones because robots keep are calling me.
Also low trust societies. You do not want to have that anywhere.
lol
Don't act like they had a choice to make here -- as much as I loathe intensely everything Apple does to appease the Chinese, refusing to act would likely prompt the government to ban them entirely.
Bet a lot of youths would react to loss of their dopamine device.
Also iphones are really only ‘good’ inside the us. Everyone else in the world sees them for what they are.
Incredible that Google managed to be less evil than Apple.
As far as I know Apple isn't forcing anyone to work for them in China. It sucks if they are a bad employer, but if people still want to work for Apple, then I guess they must be better than most alternatives.
It's about Apple bending to China government for money.
Even Google left China when they saw the inhuman demands. Apple stayed and is still going strong there at the cost of human rights.
I don't know how can people handwave and relativize these horrors with whataboutism.
> It's about Apple bending to China government for money.
I just think your implication that Google is a more moral actor than Apple is wrong.
Google left China due to cyber attacks and the risk of ongoing cyber attacks.
Google leadership wants to return to China and is happy to "bend to the China government". But Google employees are unhappy about this and are slowing the return.