from its App Store has proven especially controversial. HKMap Live allowed Hong Kongers to track the location of police in the territory.
Though the app was purportedly meant to help locals avoid getting caught up in police-protestor clashes, Apple CEO Tim CookAccording to an internal company memo obtained by Bloomberg, Cook told Apple staff the app was being used to "victimize individuals and property where no police are present," and further said he had received "credible information" that the app was being used in this way.
Yet the tech giant's removal of the app was widely interpreted as Apple kowtowing to the Chinese state. Soon after the internal memo was reported,Business Insider has contacted SumOfUs for comment.
Apple, unleash freedom!
Why do the titans of tech and big business all seem to favor authoritarianism? Didn't this hypocrite do an infomercial on MSNBC bashing Facebook for privacy while Apple paid a 4% tax rate and worked against HK protesters? Evil Empires: Oil, Tech, Pharma. Sad.
Same Apple that preaches users’ privacy and shame Facebook and Google (in the comfort that its business model doesn’t rely on ads). Corporations only take on moral stance when it doesn’t hurt their bottom line. They’re all the same.
Fresh ATH confirmed.