Apple’s App Store rules are strict — unless you’re China
Apple enforces its App Store rules with an iron hand everywhere except China. With the digital yuan launching at the Beijing Olympics, expect another round of exceptions.
Apple enforces its App Store rules with an iron hand everywhere except China. With the digital yuan launching at the Beijing Olympics, expect another round of exceptions.
This column was first published in SvD Näringsliv, in Swedish, on June 28th, 2021. This piece was translated from Swedish by Claude. Some phrasing may differ from a human translation. A new service from Apple is intended to protect privacy. But it also exposes one of the IT giant’s biggest challenges right now – choosing a path in China, where they are squeezed between the country’s exercise of power and its own ideals. Happy and confident, […]