Fair enough.<p>Apple needed to put more thought and effort into their launch if they were considering becoming a mainstay in a completely different political&#x2F;cultural market.<p>Others have pointed out that China&#x27;s closure to outside (software) tech. has helped them as an incubator, but really I think American companies have failed to bend their policies to the degree necessary to continue to exist (in China). Google for a while has tried to resist censorship, but it&#x27;s really a question of whether a company wants the one billion Chinese citizens to have access to their products at all, or if they would like to be shutout.