I think he recently said that it’s not about the money. Clearly he’s lying or the Chinese market is a parallel universe.
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So he’ll compromise on one of their self-avowed base principles why exactly, because someone asked nicely? Not sure that makes it any better. And yes, of course it’s about money. China could shut Apple down tomorrow if it wanted to; their supply chain is entirely at its mercy.
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I think it’s all about who was the bigger bite. The US clearly doesn’t since Apple postured and won. China? As you said, they can shut Apple out on a whim. Yes, they compromised in exchange for market access. It will probably do it again on another country with such a bite
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BTW, you might know the answer to this… There are data protection law somewhere that say personal data must be stored in the EU, but that doesn’t seem to apply for cloud storage?
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“Privacy Shield” (the latest term for the smoke and mirrors bullshit after the previous smoke and mirrors bullshit “Safe Harbour” was revealed to be smoke and mirrors bullshit) means that it can be. Afaik, that will not change with GDPR.
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Ok thanks. :/
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A couple of billions dollars.
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For (most) companies money trumps principles.
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Am wondering why apple hasn’t already end to end encrypted all iCloud backups yet. That surely must be in progress, maybe they hoped it’d be ready before the switch.
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