Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with China in 2016
Daring Fireball [1] has another passage from the article which is illuminating with regards to any promises Apple makes about how it will resist governmental pressure to compromise its products, vis-à-vis Apple&#x27;s CSAM scanning tool.<p>&quot;Sometime in 2014 or early 2015, China’s State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping told members of the Apple Maps team to make the Diaoyu Islands, the objects of a long-running territorial dispute between China and Japan, appear large even when users zoomed out from them. Chinese regulators also threatened to withhold approval of the first Apple Watch, scheduled for release in 2015, if Apple didn’t comply with the unusual request, according to internal documents.<p>Some members of the team back at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., initially balked at the demand. But the Maps app had become a priority for Apple, so eventually the company complied. The Diaoyu Islands, when viewed in Apple Maps in mainland China, continue to appear on a larger scale than surrounding territories.&quot;<p>Apple has, and will, fold to government pressure faster than a lawn chair.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daringfireball.net&#x2F;linked&#x2F;2021&#x2F;12&#x2F;08&#x2F;the-information-apple-china" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daringfireball.net&#x2F;linked&#x2F;2021&#x2F;12&#x2F;08&#x2F;the-information...</a>