Wednesday's Wonderful Absurdities: Time to Make Apple Pay a Price for its Evil Actions in China
It’s time to consider ditching the ol’ iPhone, folks. Ok, it’s actually long past that time, since Apple has been a horrible actor related to China for decades now, happily exploiting that country’s forced labor to manufacture its products.
But now that the corporate giant is actively coordinating efforts with the ChiComs to put down the country’s organic protest movement against Xi Jinping’s Covid lockdown policies, that is likely to become a bridge too far for many Americans:
Here’s an excerpt from an article at Interesting Engineering:
Apple's recent iOS update quietly, and completely unannounced, stopped offering the AirDrop service to Chinese phones and tablets.
Airdrops are a file transfer service that sends specific files, directly between phones, without the need for a network. In the wave of anti-government protests larger than ever before, protesters are having to communicate without the use of a crucial tool: AirDrops.
In Apple's case, they control the AirDrop organization, rather than it being a decentralized, or autonomous service. It flirts with the idea of being autonomous, but in the end, has a central authority, that can turn the service on or off, as it has done in China.
On November 9, 2022, Apple released its latest version of the mobile operating system, iOS 16.1.1. There was no mention of new features or the removal of access to some features.
The announcement to users was a short, simple message. “This update includes bug fixes and security updates and is recommended for all users.”
There was a change to the AirDrop access, hidden within the update. It applied only to iPhones sold in mainland China.
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This is evil, manifestly so, and there must be a price paid for such traitorous mendacity.