Posted on 10/31/2013 7:06:19 PM PDT by TexGrill
Taiwan has angrily demand that Apple Inc. alter its new map application, which identifies the island nation as a province of China.
Users of the iOS 7 and version 10.9 of OS X for the new iPhone and computers have discovered that any search for "Taiwan" automatically produced simplified Chinese characters that read "China Taiwan province."
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Taipei instructed its office in San Francisco to demand that Apple make an immediate correction to the software.
"We have made representations to Apple," Kelly Hsieh, head of the ministry's Department of North American Affairs, told reporters in Taipei.
"The designation of the mapping system has apparently deviated from the truth and has degraded our country's sovereignty," The China Post reported Hsieh as saying. "Matters like this must not be compromised.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Note to Taiwan, when you have total control over Apple’s manufacturing you can dictate to them.
To Apple:
BRING BACK AMERICAN MANUFACTURING.
Confucius say Apple map is rotten.
To congress:
Make it possible for Americans to compete in the world.
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