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by ntsplnkv2 2903 days ago
You're essentially asking Apple to adjust how they deal in China, potentially losing a market and manufacturing center, because in your opinion, China should acknowledge Taiwan's sovereignty. Not everyone agrees with that.

> Today you give them an inch, tomorrow they'll ask for a foot. It is exactly this kind of kautouing the West has given China in the past 20 years that led to its progressive erosion of universal values and leverage to safeguard those values across the world. When it comes to principles, espcially core values of a company, you

This is just absurd. It is not Apple's responsibility to represent the West nor do they actually represent the west. And I do not want them to represent the west.

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May I remind you that Apple's core value is protection of user's privacy. They are compromising their own core values.
I fail to see how changing a flag due to localization has anything to do with privacy at all.