Apple accused of surrendering to Russia and China for a fast buck

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/70691

The Human Rights group said that there were signs that Apple was always ready to deals with regimes to maintain its access to the market, to build and to sell its products. Apple's Private Relay never made it to China and was canceled in Russia.

The Tame Apple Press has done its best to white wash the report saying that other companies have had to cut similar deals. But GreatFire said that Google and Twitter, he said, do much better in terms of transparency. Apple has a bad habit of lying in its transparency reports and deliberately conceals the scale of app's unavailability and the reality of the 175 App Stores it operates worldwide.