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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by lastofthemojito on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @03:55PM (#29490363)
It seems to be Apple's standard MO to comply with local regulations regardless of market size. They've complied with Russian demands[0,1] and it looks like Apple Rus accounts for something like 2.6% of Apple's revenue, a fraction that Apple could probably do without.

From a recent interview[2] with Tim Cook:

>"World peace through world trade," Cook said, adding that operating in foreign countries means Apple has to "acknowledge that there are different laws in other markets."

0: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/apple-and-google...

1: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50573069

2: https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-china-tim-cook-respons...

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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by remarkEon on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @04:21PM (#29490687)
>World peace through world trade

And here I was under the impression that most everyone - everyone important enough at least - understood that Fukuyama was (very) wrong. Perhaps his definition of "world peace" is different.

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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by lastofthemojito on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @04:29PM (#29490764)
I'm not sure where Fukuyama and Friedman agree and disagree, but Cook's quote struck me as Friedman-esque. It sounds like he sees Apple as a player in Friedman's Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention: "No two countries that are both part of a major global supply chain, like Dell’s, will ever fight a war against each other as long as they are both part of the same global supply chain".

(Quoting from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_peace)

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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by Eelongate on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @07:21PM (#29492377)
Norman Angell thought much the same... in 1909.

>In The Great Illusion, Angell's primary thesis was, in the words of historian James Joll, that "the economic cost of war was so great that no one could possibly hope to gain by starting a war the consequences of which would be so disastrous."[4] For that reason, a general European war was very unlikely to start, and if it did, it would not last long.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Illusion

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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by ripbubu on Thursday December 09, 2021 @01:48AM (#29494580)
Wasn’t this the quote from IBM’s CEO in the 1930s…the one who sought world peace through his trade with Hitler?
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