-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
Apple removes app used in Hong Kong protests after pressure from China
- Thread starter Taffy Lewis
- Start date
The point wasn't direct punishment, it was making them uncomfortable. You can tell there were changes just based on the marketing. Facebook pulled API access to tons of apps and now says the future is privacy. I wonder why? Apple and Google now have official screen time apps. I wonder why? You would suggest they just came to that organically?
But that's just the more benign case, look at White House officials or Hollywood execs people never would have known the name of suddenly having people pry into all the shitty little things they've done and then getting taken to task. If you're willing to push into China knowing what the human cost is, chances are there are other lapses of morality.
Nihilism isn't really a realistic look at the world, it's just a coping tool to justify how powerless you feel.
They did all those things because it was profitable for them to do so.
Any executives who feel uncomfortable will simply be replaced with someone who doesn't care.
I am not saying nothing can be done, I'm saying that bad PR is irrelevant without an impact to their profitability.
Regarding Red Bull:
It's an old commercial that was edited:
The Red Bull owner is also a racist.
Last edited:
I agree.
Nintendo had already moved their hardware production from China.
Not sure about Microsoft or Sony.
User warned: platform wars
I mean, it's Apple. They'll always find ways to defend it, lol.
FYI Samsung is closing their own manufacturing plant in China, but that doesn't mean it won't manufacture smartphones there. They have contracted Chinese ODMs to make some of their stuff like Galaxy A10s. Analysts predict that they will ship 30-40 million smartphones made in China by the end of 2019.
Well what else am I supposed to buy?
Yes, I'm basing Apple's decision on a statement that Apple made. How is that any less reasonable at present than implying that CCP pressured them to remove it because of the protests alone?
Do you afford that same trust to Trump and everyone else who doesn't actually have your best interests at heart yet constantly claims to?
What are they controlling here? They're succumbing to a country's demands because $$$
Funny I get this warning, yet whenever I report for the exact same reason, they never get them.
Sad to see.
This thread is wild with the phone wars. All the mocking comments about people ditching iPhone are confusing too. Ditch iPhone to get a google phone which similarly has bowed to the Chinese government and will harvest my data? No thanks.
This thread is wild with the phone wars. All the mocking comments about people ditching iPhone are confusing too. Ditch iPhone to get a google phone which similarly has bowed to the Chinese government and will harvest my data? No thanks.
That's somewhat of a false equivalence, no?
Trump is distrusted by many because he routinely says things which are then countered by others.
I don't think (although I'm open to correction) that this is the same case here.
Apple have removed something, there's been a bit of uproar, and then they've released a statement.
Not really sure what Trump has to do with it in all honesty !
A corporation is as trustworthy as a politician. Especially that one. I don't know why anyone would trust either.
Because the situations aren't equivalent?
Fuck me, I'm beginning to sound like some sort of Apple fanboy - i just feel like half this thread is conjecture.
Blizzard isn't alone in its awful decisions lately it seems. If anything, Apple is more of a double standard for letting other apps with similar issues stay on their store.
