Apple Pulls 25,000 Apps From China Amid a Barrage of State-Media Criticism (wsj.com)

Apple has pulled more than 25,000 illegal apps from its App Store in China after coming under fire from state media for not doing enough to filter out banned material. From a report: "Gambling apps are illegal and not allowed on the App Store in China," Apple said in a statement Monday. "We have already removed many apps and developers for trying to distribute illegal gambling apps on our App Store, and we are vigilant in our efforts to find these and stop them from being on the App Store." The removals were reported earlier by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV on Sunday, which said 25,000 apps were pulled. Apple didn't confirm that number. It offers more than 1.8 million apps in China, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Removing 25,000 apps would amount to about 1.4% of that total.

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It's funny. Apple & Google will protest

[SensitiveMale]

Apple, specifically Cook, Google, and other tech companies will protest to the world the tiniest slight of possible discrimination, perceived or real, with the force of their full companies & reach, but they all will immediately drop to their knees and suck China's red cock while ignoring every major and documented human violation and discrimination over there. Along with the Middle East as well.

"Hey, we have to have a major protest if a man can't go into the female bathroom with little girls, but we don't give a fuck about gays being killed with govt support or actual female discrimination."

Re:It's funny. Apple & Google will protest

[Anonymous Coward]

If they ignored doing business with any country that has human rights violations then I can't think of a single country on earth they could do business in, maybe some of the smaller Scandinavian countries. Certainly US/Russia/UK/AUS/All Asian and middle eastern countries, all communist and dictator driven countries etc would be out and most European countries too. really companies should stay the fuck out of politics, obey the local laws, if you object refuse to do business there, end of story.

Surprised? Apple is a capitalist business.

[Mr. Dollar Ton]

Their primary concern is increasing profits, which happens by increasing the revenue (getting as close to a monopolist as possible) and lowering the costs (a.k.a. optimizing the workforce and lowering the tax burden).

In established oligarchies, where "the law" is drafted between lobbyists and legislators over expensive lunches paid by the former, Apple is in compliance because they write the laws.

In places like China, where the ruling elite is more aligned to an ideology, they listen and obey.

The job of Apple isn't to ask for more "democracy" in China. That's the job of the US government.

Re:Surprised? Apple is a capitalist business.

[drinkypoo]

The job of Apple isn't to ask for more "democracy" in China. That's the job of the US government.

It's everyone's job to ask for more democracy everywhere, and the fruits of capitalism are supposed to be a reward for the operation of a Free Market. China is getting the reward without the responsibility.