https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/09/apple-pulls-hkmap-from-app-store-the-day-after-chinese-state-media-criticized-its-unwise-and-reckless-decision-to-approve-it/ This is some wild stuff...First the situation with Blizzard punishing a pro hong kong pro-gamer and now this? Are American Businesses just going to do stuff like this on the regular now? Apple employees what are your thoughts?
Throw your iPhone in the trashcan NOW!
HURRY!!!
No! Give them to me!
Do you seriously think that Apple will jeopardize their factories and sales in China over some pesky pro-democracy revolution? Do you know what the ROI is on that app vs everything else in China? Face it, corporate C-level shitlords don't care for poor people in other countries, especially when they won't be a customer during a bloody revolution?
They aren’t American businesses. They’re global businesses who will be loyal to whoever is giving them money.
This is very bad PR for China, regardless of whether Apple did it due to pressure from the communist party.
Honestly bad PR for everyone
they dont give a fuck
Not pro-HK, but anti law enforcement. It’s a Waze like app that crowd source the location of law enforcement. Imagine how much looting you can do with this. There are already mobile carrier store being smashed and looted with thousands of dollars worth of merchandise go missing.
Why doesn't someone publish an app like this to track police movement in the city and see if Apple will allow that app?
Especially black people. Black developer develops app to track police movement. Americans are going to lose their mind. 😂
At this point the hysterical western circle jerk is ready to supply the protesters with actual hand grenades to supplement their existing rocks and molotov cocktails.
When Apple bans Gab, no one bats an eye. When they ban pro-HK app, everyone loses their minds.
Your question is if businesses are going to do business?
According to the article you cited, the app was taken down because it was used to ambush police and rob businesses.
That was a fuскing lie, typical pressure from Chinese prop-agit machine to help the crackdown effort. The gangs in HK work hand-in-hand with the police. Everyone with some power bands together to crack down on the peasantry, how dare they think they have power?!
Should we take down Facebook because it’s used to organize robberies and murders?