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Apple Pulls Hong Kong Protest App From App Store Following Chinese Criticism [Updated]

katbel said:
Maybe Apple gave the heads up to HK protesters when the news came out more or less a week ago, and now they removed the app leaving HK people enough time to download it
I think is not easy to deal with China having few interests there..
Tim Cook has few issues I don't like about hardware and software decisions
but I think is pretty sensible to human rights violation: he proved it several times before.
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Safari, hkmap.live, boom.
You don't even need an app.
I mean people here are actually insulting Hong Kong people, as if they are all iPhone users that doesn't know how to use the internet. Amazing the snobbishness here. I'm sure the majority here yelling liberty or freedom of speech don't even have the balls to protest their local governments.
 
macfacts said:
How are they looking up police names and addresses with this apple app?
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they as in the rioters, in a response to people crying about Apple suppressing freedom.
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gavroche said:
Out of curiosity, what is the "human rights violation" here by tracing police? And ifit was such a thing... does that mean that apps tracking buses, airplanes, taxis, etc are as well? are rights of bus drivers, pilots, taxi drivers, etc different?

I seriously think people throw around terms like that and have absolutely no idea what they mean.
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Are you seriously comparing tracking of Police units to PUBLIC TRANSPORT? There's no end how far people are digging these days for bs excuses
 
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mytdave said:
Apple talks a good game when it comes to so-called "human rights" that tear down traditional values and morality, but they totally cave to the communists when it comes to actual human rights.
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It's about virtue signaling to their silicon valley base, they couldn't care less about democracy in Hong Kong.
 
827538 said:
It's about virtue signaling to their silicon valley base, they couldn't care less about democracy in Hong Kong.
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Wtf? It’s about respecting a country’s sovereignty. Alphabet is doing the same. Do you want foreign companies to be in the US without following US regulations?
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russell_314 said:
Why do lefties compare everything they don't like to Hitler :rolleyes:
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Because most of them have the logic of a child, and once they do that, they can “win” any debate. Just like how the left usually resort to calling others names right off the gate. You cannot win a debate with a child.
 
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This use put the app in violation of Hong Kong law.
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That’s the explanation.
For the SJWs, sounds like you don’t even respect Hong Kong then if you want Apple to ignore Hong Kong’s laws.
 
Funny how as usual, Tim Apple huffs and puffs when he bullies people he doesn't agree with in a free country, but readily kowtows to the police state in a violent dictatorship like it's nothing. Then again, that sounds just like the typical behavior for big money making "human rights" NGO special interest groups (Amnesty International, et al.)
 
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msp3 said:
Funny how as usual, Tim Apple huffs and puffs when he bullies people he doesn't agree with in a free country, but readily kowtows to the police state in a violent dictatorship like it's nothing. Then again, that sounds just like the typical behavior for big money making "human rights" NGO special interest groups (Amnesty International, et al.)
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Please show me where does Tim Cook bully people?
 
ErikGrim said:
Can protestors not technically already use Waze (or other crowdsourced mapping apps) to track police checkpoints?
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The protesters can use the internet. Go to hkmap.live , no app needed.
The busy keyboard warriors here are just yelling because it’s a forum, and it’s cool to bash Apple.
 
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I hope Tim remembers this moment when he needs to avoid the hordes of ravening homophobes that will be roaming the streets post Trumpocalypse.

"Let me just download this great app called "moronmobmentalityminder", oh wait, now it's gone!" 😂
 
koruki said:
These rioters are looking up the identity of individual police, their families, their children's schools and posting all their information online, tracking them down and attacking them at random. Inciting violence in schools against the children whose parents are cops. You tell me if that suddenly sounds like such an awesome "cause" and if this app is actually helping or causing harm. Once again speak with your wallet, if you think Apple is wrong then don't buy their stuff but don't go chanting the same "freedom" rhetoric when it is being used and abused as an excuse for violence.
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So now people who support democracy can’t use iPhones?
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cardfan said:
Who cares? It’s all 3rd world nonsense anyways. Long as Apple makes me money that’s all I care about. Wouldn’t mind a decent MacBook though.
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Ouch. I don’t agree. But at least you’re honest about how you feel
 
Whichever way you cut this, it's Apple putting money before any of its shiny ideas of humanity or human rights. And yes, it's money, not some craven notion of "conformity to the law of some country". (God, if everyone had always "conformed to the law of their country" the world would look very different to the way it does now.)
 
sirozha said:
The only answer is to stop relying on China as the manufacturing base and as a market for your products. Then, you are free to act according to your ethics.
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I really can't take this statement seriously. Do you genuinely think that China is unique when it comes to disagreeing wit the west?

They can cut their nose of anything but the Commonwealth, Europe, and North America because they don't like their politics. Absolutely can!

But it'd be stupid.

Just let people control their iPhones, and then you can't be held responsible for what people do with it. Simple as that.
 
goobot said:
Apple just doesn’t want to loose China’s market.
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Nobody wants to lose the market with the most population on the planet, well except for Samsung (Samsung just closed its factories in China, unable to compete with the locals).
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jennyp said:
Whichever way you cut this, it's Apple putting money before any of its shiny ideas of humanity or human rights. And yes, it's money, not some craven notion of "conformity to the law of some country". (God, if everyone had always "conformed to the law of their country" the world would look very different to the way it does now.)
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So you’re okay if Chinese companies enter your country and ignore your country’s rules and regulations.
got it.
 
If there's anything positive that could be said about this disgrace you can now confidently say that all of their posturing on various rights is just that, posturing. As soon as push comes to shove and upholding principles like democracy and human rights can hurt their checkbooks, they'll fold.

After this any sane and informed person is going to take Cook and Apple's claims of being for various rights about as seriously as when Trump tries to pander to hispanics and african-americans...
 
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