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dewme said:

StrangeDays said:

libertyforall said:

Apple is not very freedom focused sometimes, and bends to mere financial reasons, to the chagrin of Cook who pretends he always stands behind what is right and just.  

Prove it. What is the financial reason in Russia? How big are the revenues based on their economy?

Cook has said the reason they stay in countries with laws we don’t agree with, like Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia, is that they feel people there still benefit more from having Apple devices than not having them. 

Women weren’t even allowed to drive in Saudi Arabi until this year, don’t see anybody losing sleep over it. But redrawing the map to show Russian occupation of a territory is a hard stop for you? Ok...

Sounds reasonable to me.

Apple, Google, and other companies who produce maps, and all other tools that provide convenience services that are based on geopolitical data assigned by a Ruling Authority, have absolutely zero control or influence over the assignment of the attributes associated with the services they provide for convenience to users. If the ruling authority says a peninsula has the tag “Russia” assigned as part of its name then the provider of the convenience service is obliged to present that information as part of the full description if they wish their tool to be as accurate as possible for the benefit of their users.

As a user of a mapping tool I’d really want to know that when I approach a geopolitical border the information presented on the map accurately reflects what the ruling authority of the territory has stipulated. I can absolutely guarantee you that if Apple or Google labeled a disputed border with a label that reflected their personal assertion of who the ruling authority is, or the prevailing opinion in their home country, it wouldn’t matter one iota when I attempted to cross the border. Apple is neither an authority on border disputes nor an arbitrator of political disagreements. Does any rational person believe that they would be able to assert “Apple Maps Authority” to gain entry into a country that has a controlled border - because Apple Maps labeled the territorial border based on Apple’s political stance? Gimme a break. Nobody is that stupid, and especially not Apple.

Apple doesn’t even hold piss-ant status when it comes to arbitrating geopolitical issues. They just make a mapping tool as a convenience service for their users. The last thing Apple wants to do is put their users at risk by exposing them to scenarios within their tools that may be misconstrued by real authorities, as opposed to fake authorities like political posers, as being controversial. Quit looking to Apple to solve problems that are not within their purview to solve. Yes, Apple demonstrates amazingly effective leadership when it comes to delivering world class consumer products to market. But Apple’s leadership is domain specific. Even though we see a very pathetic lack of leadership in our political leaders at a time when we see great leadership by Apple, we have to refrain from expecting Apple to cross over into the underserved side of our dilemma because they are simply neither equipped nor empowered to do so. This, and other similar contemporary political shitstorms, are not Apple’s problems to solve. We all know where the problem is, and it ain’t centered in Cupertino.  

 

CheeseFreeze said:

Excellent piece of Apple fanboy propaganda.
No reason for this overly long article to exist. Terrible headings, over-dramatizing facts, handpicking random ingredients just to prove a point nobody is asking for. 

(Saying this, owning over 7 Apple devices and being a satisfied customer)