Apple is really a rotten company.

They have a deal with Chinese government, so they are basically helping abuse human rights.

Recently they disabled AirDrop in China, to further prevent freedom of speech during protests. And they are threatening to remove Twitter from app store, since it Musk is ramping up free speech.

They never claimed the Apple is in edible condition

While it often really look like it, not even the biggest companies are actually able to fully ignore local laws when doing business.

In theory, Apple could just pull a Google and ignore that huge market. But Apple is a way more ethical company and their capitalist ethics don't allow ignoring such a huge opportunity to generate loads of profit. Also, the CIA won't let them pull out of China anyways as a lot of Chineese CEOs and "Communist" Party members are using their phones and having direct access to that data is important for the US economy.

Companies are like that. They'd feed your mother to hungry beasts if it meant profit.

This is nowhere near the worst apple has done.

Well they can use Quick share instead :D

- They did not disable AirDrop, they changed it - only for China - to automatically disable the feature every 10 minutes

- 'since it Musk is ramping up free speech' lmao

Ignoring Musk bs, they actually didn't intend to, which was cleared up when Musk talked with Tim.

You do not get to 1 trillion value without trampling over human rights.

Our current status is fucked. I for one, welcome our A.I overlords. even if it means whiping us out of the face of the planet, it would be a nice change, for our plannet.

Know what we call the one virus our planet has? we call it humanity

BTW I love your username. Disregard humanity, embrace monke

Um apple isn't in incharge of how they run sweatshop in China, its foxconn. So chill lmao.

If someone is offering a cheaper service for the same quality wouldn't you take it?

@jassole Some moral issues should be relevant. It's like buying a car from someone who used it to commit crimes. If I knew I wouldn't buy it just because the car is good and cheap.

Apple, on the other hand, doesn't care about that kind of thing.

But I'm just an optimist like Gene Roddenberry.

China has their own mobile OS. On a long run, these companies will loose

@Ohiorenua this!

For the CCP it's becoming easy to simply have their own stuff, copies/reverse engineered from others. Look at Huawei, which totally admits copying hardware from Cisco/Juniper and releaseing it on the internal market.

@codingfreedom Its not exactly that direct, and its not committing a crime though, thats bit exaggeration. More like the sparkplug and the leather seat was made in a sweatshop where workers worked grueling hours. Would anyone change their sparkplug and seats then? I don't think so..........

@jassole Not encouraging bad behavior is important. Humanity has evolved a lot, in the not so distant past there was apartheid.

We cannot minimize current problems just because they are indirect to us.

I'm not some kind of political activist. But freedom of expression and the dignity of the individual is the minimum. If a government doesn't care about this, it becomes very easy to provide cheap labor.

We're not in the 18th century anymore.

PS: I have an iMac that I bought in 2011 with 16GB of RAM, 1TB of SSD and an i5 Quad-Core. Good machine for today correct? But Apple phased out the software, and today it's sitting in my closet because of some asshole's decision not to offer updates anymore. So: Fuck Apple, embrace China, and you're both going to hell. And because of the labor conditions that made it, instead of selling this machine or installing another OS, I'm going to take it to the shooting range.