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China attacks Apple for allowing Hong Kong crowdsourced police activity app

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Re: China attacks Apple for allowing Hong Kong crowdsourced police activity app

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Jeez they even tried to get a song removed from Apple Music? I wonder how much other stuff China was able to suppress without anyone noticing.

When people believe that suppressing speech is the correct course of action, there's really no telling where it ends.

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Apple will most likely be fine because it's unlike any other western company operating in China in that it employs a lot of people assembling their products. It's not in the CCP's interest for people to boycott Apple in a nationalist fervor only for unemployment to rise, which would be an existential threat to the CCP if they lost control of.

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Western companies have been bending blatantly a little too low to save assets and market shares in China. With trade war, human rights abuse in Xinjiang, and Hong Kong protest, this is probably a good chance for the West to stand against China's invasion.

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I’ll admit, I don’t see apple supporting the equivalent app for, say, the US.

I thought many GPS apps show speed traps and police checkpoints in real time? Not a user and not identical but I assumed they did.

Re: China attacks Apple for allowing Hong Kong crowdsourced police activity app

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I’ll admit, I don’t see apple supporting the equivalent app for, say, the US.

I thought many GPS apps show speed traps and police checkpoints in real time? Not a user and not identical but I assumed they did.

Even Google Maps shows speed traps now.

Re: China attacks Apple for allowing Hong Kong crowdsourced police activity app

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post #5

Apple will most likely be fine because it's unlike any other western company operating in China in that it employs a lot of people assembling their products. It's not in the CCP's interest for people to boycott Apple in a nationalist fervor only for unemployment to rise, which would be an existential threat to the CCP if they lost control of.

So I googled and saw that there's 4.8 Million apple employees in China? More than i expected when I started the Google search.

With that said, is that enough for China to care at all? a little? a lot? Meaning, I wouldn't be surprised if China would forgo plenty of jobs from Western companies as their economy matures. Especially if China fully boycotted Apple, I doubt many other US Companies would respond at all

Many of those companies are showing themselves to be spineless right now

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