It’s extremely worrying how far Apple bends over to appease China. First censoring the Taiwan flag, now deliberately removing this app after initially refusing it.
Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store
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#272> we have verified with the Hong Kong Cybersecurity and Technology Crime Bureau [CSTCB] that the app has been used to target and ambush police "the foxes have verified that the app has been used by hens to ambush foxes"
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#273Apple has actually been quite smart here. Everyone knows the limiting condition that we are seeing in the world right now. What Apple has achieved is to allow the app to be downloaded for several days and then to make an appeasement. We see a similar strategy used by NBA in recent times. It is undoubted that such a play will receive flame from both sides, but as such they haven't really taken sides and yet also have answered to calls.
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#274Ha! Just yesterday, everyone was talking about Apple as bastions of user privacy, etc., only for them to put profit over principles AGAIN in less than a week. It's just so shameful, but I guess that's capitalism working its magic and putting shareholder profits above all else. Not that Apple is any different from any other megacorp, but they sure do like to pretend like they have principles and care about users. Turns out they only care for those who don't threaten their bottom line.
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#275Hey guys capitalism is going to protect us from dictators. Corporations are our friends. ..Guys?
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#276Blizzard and now Apple. I think this is very serious and it should be a wake-up call. As simple citizens we don't have much choices but vote with our wallets and use social networks to attack the most valuable asset of those companies, their reputation.
This isnt about free will, its a clear indication that the US is not the worlds most important economy anymore.
No, this is companies betting that the few percent of the American market they are losing by behaving this way will be outweighed by getting access to the Chinese market.
If this was a straight-up choice between only the US market or only the Chinese market, they would be picking the US.
Protestors have to change that calculus.
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#277Blizzard and now Apple. I think this is very serious and it should be a wake-up call. As simple citizens we don't have much choices but vote with our wallets and use social networks to attack the most valuable asset of those companies, their reputation.
That’s not how this works. Apple is one of the wealthiest companies in the world, and saying “just don’t spend money there” is a bit reductionist and trivializes the problem of corporations with more power than nation-states. You need to fight fire with fire: governments of the world (especially the US government) need to create laws that restrict and punish this kind of behavior. Otherwise, I sincerely doubt Apple’s…
Homegrown sentiment against Apple will very quickly turn the company in the right direction. None of these large companies can afford to completely neglect their home territories.
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#278It's here anyway https://hkmap.live/
I think the issue is more about Apple's acquiescence. My guess is protesters require a VPN at this point to access the map's server regardless of it they do so through the app or the website. The technical barrier is there regardless, but the fact that Apple is making clear what their values are worth merits discussion.
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#279Blizzard and now Apple. I think this is very serious and it should be a wake-up call. As simple citizens we don't have much choices but vote with our wallets and use social networks to attack the most valuable asset of those companies, their reputation.
That’s not how this works. Apple is one of the wealthiest companies in the world, and saying “just don’t spend money there” is a bit reductionist and trivializes the problem of corporations with more power than nation-states. You need to fight fire with fire: governments of the world (especially the US government) need to create laws that restrict and punish this kind of behavior. Otherwise, I sincerely doubt Apple’s…
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#280It helps to know a little bit about what's been going on in Hong Kong, before you all decide to line up and take your daily dump on China. It all started a few months ago when someone committed a crime in Taiwan and fled to Hong Kong. To prevent HK from becoming a safe haven for criminals, the Chief Executive of HK proposed a new law to facilitate extradition of these crime suspects from HK to various jurisdictions i…
How many people have died in these huge, violent and destructive protests that have been raging for months?