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also people don't realize how local Apple is. In a lot of countries you can't even access their services which decreases the value of their devices.

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But oddly enough one of those countries isn't China. Its weird how Google and Facebook can't do much their while everything from Apple works as well as anywhere else.

Because Apple is willing to play China's game. Google and Facebook's business models (ads) fundamentally don't work with China's government. They sell different products than Apple.

> Because Apple is willing to play China's game.

They are forced to by their hardware business model. Almost every entry point to the Apple ecosystem is through hardware and nobody can meet QC and scale of Chinese factories. Too much of a risk to block China and risk supply chain disruptions.

This comment made me feel unnecessarily old. It was only ~15 years ago that we went through all the drama of tech companies deciding whether or not they’d play ball. It’s not that Google can’t, it’s that they decided that the juice isn’t worth the squeeze. Apple decided otherwise. They’re very different companies selling very different things.

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