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China has shut down Apple's online book and movie services as it imposes strict rules governing what can be published on the net.
Regulations were unveiled in March that outlawed foreign ownership of online publishing services. The rules also required that all content shown to Chinese people must be stored on servers based on the Chinese mainland.
Apple said it hoped access to the services would be restored soon.
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(Score: 2, Disagree) by TheGratefulNet on Sunday April 24 2016, @04:04PM
fuck china.
apple should just pull out and totally refuse to deal with china.
does apple really NEED china, other than for, say, manufacturing? and there are many other asian countries that can match china's labor rate. they are not the only slave child labor in the world...
seriously, just pull out of china as a demonstration to them. they need apple more than apple needs china! if apple refuses to sell to china (I know, the capitalists would never allow such a decreate in PROFITS) then china would not have any more shiny things to copy and pirate as iphone clones.
I really wish some strong company (or country) would just show china that enough is enough and they don't get to dictate every single little thing their hearts desire.
ie, I wish there was a true balance of power, here.
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 24 2016, @05:06PM
Are you clueless?
China is Apple's largest market after the US.
China is the largest growth market for Apple bar none.
Since when does China need to copy Apple, when they can just copy Android directly and cut out the middleman?
None of those other countries have remotely comparable supply chains and infrastructure.
China doesn't need Apple at all, and would much prefer to sell their own phones, profit from their own app stores and spy on their own citizens by themselves. Apple must have done a lot of things and bribed the right people to be allowed back into China in the first place. Apple should just pray they don't alter the deal any further.