| ▲ | egorfine 8 hours ago |
| Folding before China in China is not the same as folding before totalitarian western demands. |
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| ▲ | throwawayffffas 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Why? They only disabled ADP in the UK, how is it different? |
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| ▲ | unified101 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | It isn't. | | |
| ▲ | Matl 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Except for where Western governments pearl clutch about freedom and how free and open they are unlike big, bad China and all that. | | |
| ▲ | pocksuppet 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Remember that North Koreans genuinely believe they are living in the most free country on earth. | | | |
| ▲ | philipallstar 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Western governments pearl clutch about freedom and how free and open they are That's not how to use "pearl clutch". And the UK doesn't do that, and it isn't very free or open, except in the deranged mind of Kier Starmer[0]. Classic liberalism in the UK has long given way to regulation of speech, proud conformity, state dependency, and all the other things that are hallmarks of people who treat the state as a surrogate parent. [0] https://uk.news.yahoo.com/starmer-defends-uk-commitment-free... |
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| ▲ | ImJamal 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| It is not like their HQ is in China. They chose to enter the Chinese market. |
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| ▲ | sneak 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Every iPhone sold everywhere is manufactured in China. They make 34,000 iOS devices every hour, 24/7. That’s not possible anywhere else. Apple is, from a purely practical standpoint, more a Chinese operation than an American one. | | |
| ▲ | ImJamal 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | They could manufacture them in China, but not sell the phones there? | | |
| ▲ | sneak an hour ago | parent [-] | | China is their second biggest market, I believe. Additionally, the humans who make all of the iPhones and iPads are Chinese people, subject to Chinese law. Apple has to do exactly what the CCP wants, at least for now. They are desperately trying to ramp up phone production in India, but there is huge expertise at Foxconn that isn’t in India as yet. |
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