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You can frame it the different way: Apple has given up improving the freedom of the Chinese people because that is infeasible. But it hasn’t given up hope on the West.

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Or Apple doesn't care about either, just pays lip service to both.

They are a corporation. They care about making money. Privacy concerns are completely and utterly subservient to this goal.

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