It's lovely that they decided to approve the app after reviewing compliance with local laws, here's hoping those laws don't... change... suddenly. In the near future.
This is more like Activision rather than Blizzard. Blizzard died a slow death once they got eaten by the A guys.
They are worse than North Korea. At least the world isn’t sucking up to them for business reasons. Money money money
There is no law in China as you know it. It’s what communist party tells you and as far as my knowledge goes it’s more of a dictatorship. **** them.Apple, hurry up and move all manufacturing out of the country and stop doing business there. Your bottom line will take a hit, but your reputation won't. Either you have values that span the globe or you don't.
This "we operate by the law in each country" PR line doesn't hold water anymore.
As is so often the case with these things, we are right to be suspicious of the idea that the "people's democracy from below" movement is completely uncorrupted by western-backed elites. Look at Syria. There what started as a legit aspect of the Arab spring got taken over by the Saudis and ISIS, and turned the movement against Assad into something sinister indeed. I don't doubt for a moment that western forces are trying to do the same here. What started likely enough as an authentic movement is quite likely also being coopted to the west. Equally, either way, the Chinese state has its own vested interested in stamping it out. The real losers are the original protesters, who are probably closest to the will of the Hong Kong people"Rioters" is an incorrect term. They are foreign-backed terrorists who do more than property damage, but derail _passenger_ trains and beat civilians and journalists, usually unprovoked. They have received at least $29 million dollars from a foreign government organization which is run by the head of the Contra program. They've met with Western government officials and are seen as being instructed by agents from the west working with them in HK. They wave American flags, and praise Trump and Neo-Nazi favourite "PePe" the frog through signs and spray paint. They ask the West to invade using their military.
Their goal is cripple the economy through fear, destruction of transportation infrastructure and violence that makes many afraid to leave their homes or open their businesses. And it's clearly a network, with leaders praised by war mongers. Remember when the US trained Al Qaeda and so many other violent groups? Pulling off the same in China will be hard, but that seems to be what the West hopes to do.
If I made an Al Qaeda app, to help extremists discuss, meet and locate one another, I'd be in big trouble. When the same is done to aid enemies of China, Apple approves it.
Integrating HK into China will be a slow process, they know this. After the outrageous murder of a Chinese girl by a HK teen who is now walking free, the justice system recommended a small step: extradition for crimes committed in other countries. HK folks can't just murder folks and then go home to face no punishment. But send in professionals in psyops, lie in the Western media, train and finance terrorists, and you have a may just get a new Eastern Contra style system that can damage the country at large.
But I think China is wise and will solve this attempt at proxy attack.
It’s not just about creating low-cost iPhones to sell around the world. It’s about creating iPhones to sell in China, the worlds largest or second largest market. Even if they manufacture phones in other countries, they will still want to sell them in China. But they will do that with a decided disadvantage, since the Chinese government favors companies that manufacture within their borders. It is a very tricky situation. Especially since abandoning the 1000,000,000 human beings has financial and moral implications.If Apple are smart, they will ramp up production of iPhones and other products here in the US, or at least in other democracies, so that they do not have to kowtow to the dictatorship in Beijing. It may cause costs to rise, but that's OK -- better to pay the proper cost of something and have a clear conscience than to pay less at the cost of supporting things that are bad.
Nothing SJW about this. This is good old fashioned freedom against totalitarianism and shouldn’t be tarnished with smaller fads. China is opening up markets but they continue to be an oppressive regime. I hope it will not always be that way. The beautiful people and culture of China deserve better.Now let’s see how strong Apples SJW stand really is.
Courage lol
We need to blame the corporate leaders who gave all the production and manufacturing industries to China whom aptly copied all the technology from the West. And, the West has funded China’s expansion and development of super cities and amazing infrastructure. Corporations and investors did this to us, and consumers enabled and never held the corporations accountable.
If ever America was going to jump in to defend democracy, it should step in to a place that democracy is actually wanted and fought for by the people in Hong Kong rather than Iraq for oil and fake WMD.
Corporate greed is responsible, and until we stop allowing all companies to do business in ANY AMD EVERY communist or dictatorship regime, the world will continually hand over its wealth and liberals will think they want communism as so many are dumbfounded to what they’re actually saying or think they want.
I would hold every CEO and executive team responsible for this. It can even be swapped over to free countries like India who want and need the jobs. They’re not trying to destroy others and are peaceful people that could actually use the jobs and easily transfer wealth to a country, government and people who mean no harm to democracy.
I see. I agree. (I am still learning )Socialism is ok but totalitarianism (China’s communist party) is not.
Exactly.. US (and many Democracies around the world) is a farce when the higher ups control information (Cambridge Analytica anyone??) and the electoral college exist. Look up Peter Coffin’s recent video on it on Youtube for a more broad explanation... even though he’s slightly annoying imo..Are you saying you actually consider the US a democracy? I don't and, for the sake of democracy, I hope Americans start to realize we gave it up nearly 20 years ago. Read the news? I have nothing against a conservative point of view, unfortunately the GOP gave up on the integrity tentpole that goes hand-in-hand with traditional conservatism and has decided instead to take over the country using *any* means necessary. That includes abandoning the rule of law. If you don't think the US is heading in the same direction as China, then you're not paying attention.
Do people here actually know what they are talking about
A bit of an extreme example, if you turn the table around, would you approve if an app tracks US army movements back when they were fighting Isis?
‘supporting’ Hong Kong doesn’t make you cool. Do you actually know what these people are asking for and what are they protesting about?
There are many voices coming out of Hong Kong, and you only choose to hear one and an extreme one.
+10 Social Credits to you comrade."Rioters" is an incorrect term. They are foreign-backed terrorists who do more than property damage, but derail _passenger_ trains and beat civilians and journalists, usually unprovoked. They have received at least $29 million dollars from a foreign government organization which is run by the head of the Contra program. They've met with Western government officials and are seen as being instructed by agents from the west working with them in HK. They wave American flags, and praise Trump and Neo-Nazi favourite "PePe" the frog through signs and spray paint. They ask the West to invade using their military.
Their goal is cripple the economy through fear, destruction of transportation infrastructure and violence that makes many afraid to leave their homes or open their businesses. And it's clearly a network, with leaders praised by war mongers. Remember when the US trained Al Qaeda and so many other violent groups? Pulling off the same in China will be hard, but that seems to be what the West hopes to do.
If I made an Al Qaeda app, to help extremists discuss, meet and locate one another, I'd be in big trouble. When the same is done to aid enemies of China, Apple approves it.
Integrating HK into China will be a slow process, they know this. After the outrageous murder of a Chinese girl by a HK teen who is now walking free, the justice system recommended a small step: extradition for crimes committed in other countries. HK folks can't just murder folks and then go home to face no punishment. But send in professionals in psyops, lie in the Western media, train and finance terrorists, and you have a may just get a new Eastern Contra style system that can damage the country at large.
But I think China is wise and will solve this attempt at proxy attack.
The guy who took his girlfriend to Taiwan and killed her is pretty much a free man now in Hong Kong because Hong Kong refused Taiwan's extradition request to have him extradited back to Taiwan to face murder charges. The Hong Kong father of the girl and her family members are quite unhappy that the killer of their daughter was not extradited back to Taiwan to face murder charges. This is one of the main reasons this extradition law was passed at the time which was to send a message that if you commit such a crime between China, Taiwan and Hong Kong you will be extradited to that country to face charges. The bad part was that the law was not so specific and clear on what sorts of crimes this would apply for and to which I think was a mistake. They could have easily resolved this be specifying specifically what crimes it would apply to but they did not do so. For those comaining about this just look at what Trump said about the wife of the Diplomat which recently killed a biker in the UK. Trump pretty much also does not want to send her back and keep in mind that the UK and the US do have an extradition treaty in place. You can see the double standards and hypocrisy here, right..?+10 Social Credits to you comrade.
LOL!!! So glad that Apple got bitten by their money dog. So sick of seeing Apple talk about China in their Keynotes. Just another greedy company looking to please China because they have money.
Let's be real, this is Tim Cook's Apple and as long as money is involved, Apple will never severe ties with China.