They are certainly going to get the Chinese business. That is not the issue.
The issue is that they are assisting the Chinese government to spy on the citizens who use apple products.
The reason they are doing so is because China was going to ban their phones.
It’s really not much different then the crap we put up with here, but at least we have some choices to limit the data collection.
My choice was to put all my smart phones in a drawer and go back to something that just makes phone calls and I limit the use of it.
Sure! they are going to get the Chinese business, as will everyone else in the region. (sarc)
“The data will be kept on servers provided by China Telecom Corp Ltd, the country’s third-largest wireless carrier, Apple said in a statement on Friday,” Shih and Carsten report. “A source with knowledge of the situation said the encryption keys for Apple’s data on China Telecom servers would be stored offshore and not made available to China Telecom… Jeremy Goldkorn, director of Danwei.com, a research firm focused on Chinese media, internet and consumers [said], ‘On the other hand if they don’t store Chinese user data on a Chinese server they’re basically risking a crackdown from the authorities.’ Goldkorn added that data stored in the United States is subject to similar U.S. regulations where the government can use court orders to demand private data.”