Am I bring cynical?

https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/28/apple-record-china-2021/

Apple's iPhone revenu just doubled from last year in China -- now 17 billion. Thats not a small number. The play against Huawei has done it's job, apparently -- it's quite mortally injured.

For sure the CCP would love to scan everyone's phones for files or images it finds troubling and for sure every country will eventually be allowed to have its own entries in this database or even their own custom DB.

So my cynical side says...Apple just sold out. MASSIVELY. The loosers -- everyone pretty much that buys their phones.