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anantksundaram said:

Thank you for that superb post. This forum is increasingly inhabited and ruled by moronic, ill-informed yahoos who are not only utterly ignorant of things outside their 20-mile radius of existence, but wear that moronicity on their sleeves. 

Thanks for the compliment! Sadly, that seems to be the case on all the Apple-centric blogs and forums. All the tech sites in general. It's rare to find any forum that's not overrun by knee-jerk reactionaries! There are very few sites and groups I'm members of where everyone seems well informed and posts well-thought-out responses. Mostly graphic design and film studies forums. Part of the problem, too, is when the articles themselves that commenters are commenting on are equally rushed. 

I wish media outlets would wait a little longer to discover the real reason, rather than rely on speculation like this. It has nothing to do with China's conservative culture and views on AIDS. There are plenty of AIDS-related charities in China as well, and Apple had Product Red iPods in mainland China years ago as well. The real reason is, on January 1, 2017, it became illegal for non-profit NGOs to engage in or fund for-profit activities. So, for-profit corporations, like Apple, can no longer release products co-branded by a non-profit.