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There's a story making the rounds with various clickbait-y titles such as "Apple made secret 5-year $275B deal with Chinese government".
It really made me go "aw, crap" at first, fearing that Apple was tasked to help set up a surveillance apparatus, modernize the Great Firewall, add state-requested features to iOS, … and, nope. Instead, the crux of the story is this: Quote:
Like, am I missing something? I've seen criticism that Cook should've made this contingent on human rights improvements, and I suppose that's a fair angle, but beyond that, I just don't really see the story here? Why shouldn't Apple invest in their third-largest market? (Is this in the US's interest? Maybe not. Would it be in the US's interest to curtail Apple's ability to make such deals? I don't know. It would have ripple effects, including on other tech companies. How would Microsoft feel if the US compels them to no longer build Xboxes in China?) |
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Deal also includes a mandatory spy chip installed in every machine sold in the Chinese market.
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Could be, and that would be an actual scoop.
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You’d think that someone would find said chip fast, I’m sure there is a Chinese version of iFixit out there. Of course those who aren’t savvy enough to get around the great firewall wouldn’t know it was different from what is sold elsewhere.
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Well, we know for a fact that Chinese iCloud is run by a different company.
So, region-specific differences in the software do exist. (See also: ECG only works in some countries.) Do hardware differences exist? My guess is no. Too easy to detect. Do surprising software differences exist? Could be. |
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