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by spacehunt 2937 days ago
Letting you through the GFW and not actually touching any servers are two completely orthogonal concepts though.

Also, if your iCloud country is set to China it doens't matter which country you're in or what SIM you use; your iCloud account will be stored in a Chinese data centre: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/apple-sends-icloud-c...
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seanmcdirmid 2937 days ago
Right. Conversely, if you are a foreigner in China with a non Chinese Apple account, you skip the Chinese server as well. This is just a matter of setting your country, and you can still use the Chinese App Store if you wish (just set it to China, install app, then set it back to the USA).

Skype and TomTom are a bit different though.

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