They don't, for instance, have the flag of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, instead using the flag of the former Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
The parent poster was referring to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Afghanistan
I can only assume that this is a 3rd rail of sorts for “Western” types who seem to be 100% anti-Iran lately, even though I remember about half a decade ago the same sorts of people were pro-Iran when it came to giving back their money that would eventually be used to fund terrorism, but would love to take Russia’s money for doing the same thing.
Never forget that Biden fistbumped MbS.
Here's a podcast interviewing someone who created an emoji
This is surely related to the political climate but I believe the entities involved applied that change worldwide.
Apple made that change around the same time as the Rio Olympics. In the leadup to the Olympics, there was a push to create an emoji for every event. Unicode 9 added emojis for handball, wrestling, water polo, fencing, etc.
However the almost comprehensive set still had some gaps, because Apple veto'd the marksmanship/air rifle and pentathlon emojis... but not in time to prevent the creation of the corresponding unicode glyphs
Yandex is an interesting showcase of how bad this can get - they literally dropped country borders from their maps last year "for better user experience". And I don't mean just lines that you normally see while browsing the map, but even when you ask for it deliberately. For example, if you look up a city, you get its territory highlighted on the map - but that's not the case for countries, it just puts a marker "somewhere in the middle".
They also removed administrative regional boundaries without announcing that change - probably because looking up regions at the border would have to include a part of said border into the displayed boundary, making it discoverable.
How does that standard apply to Taiwan?
“The maritime border is disputed in a part of the Ems estuary outside the Dollart bay, where Germany has the view that the state border runs on the left bank of the Ems, while the Netherlands regards the Thalweg as its border.
[…]
In 2014 the two nations' foreign ministers met to put an end to the dispute. It was decided that the border should remain ambiguous and responsibility for the region in question shared”
More info (in German) at https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsch-Niederländische_Grenzf....
Not all ethicists recommend "dying on your sword" so to speak. Sometimes it is useful to maintain influence and fight another day. These things are far from simple.
If you want Apple to push back on censorship in China, let's talk about the details. What would China likely do in return?
If you add ten more years, did it work out for Russia? Belarus? Ukraine? It did work out for Poland, Latvia and some others. But getting rid of an oppressive regime is the easy part of transforming an autocracy into democracy.
Comments like these are always fun, because nothing is ever really said, nor are answers provided. It's just the usual gaslighting by a classic CCP poster (you know we can see your comment history, right? It's all the same gaslighting routine every pro-fascist poster does).
Like this:
"If you want Apple to push back on censorship in China, let's talk about the details. What would China likely do in return?"
How about YOU answer it since YOU brought it up?
¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HKmap.live
² https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/apple-telegram-belarus/
³ https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/google-apple-remove-nav...
⁴ Check the bio: https://twitter.com/tim_cook
All we know is what has been reported.
It would seem improbable what a multi trillion dollar company with it's manufacturing base in China wouldn't be dealing and negotiating with the Chinese authorities as part of day to day operations.
To say Tim Cook fights no battles seems unlikely. We cannot make that statement because the reality is that we just don't know what goes on behind closed doors!
(Or perhaps, that was your point!)
They are not 'hiding' anything, which implies they have more to hide.
Apple are a secretive company that does not tend to discuss their internal politics and supplier arrangements.
The internet could argue about this all day long, but my point stands that we just don't know!
But I get your point as well. Maybe I'm feeling generous towards Apple!
I'm not normally a fan of Mr Tim Cook! :-)
If you can't then you'll have to rely on the "it would've been worse but for his efforts" but I doubt you're going to provide evidence for that.
What we do know is that Apple have repeatedly sided with censorship, I can certainly provide evidence of that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_d...
Yet icloud is dencrypted in China as soon as that's what the authorities want.
Standing up for things doesn't really mean much when you have nothing to lose. It's like the world cup players talking about LGBT rights and then stopping it as soon as they are threatened with yellow cards. That's boring cowardly virtue signalling, it's not standing up for something regardless of consequences.
> The richest company in the world has at the helm a person who quotes Martin Luther King Jr on the importance of doing something for others⁴
CEO saying something he obviously doesn't believe in to look good on PR is also news to you ?
by "power dynamics", do you mean lies propagated by the CCP?
> Perhaps playing the game over a longer time frame?
Apple isn't a government. What do you mean here exactly? Money? That propagating lies for money is a legitimate way of doing business?
Parent is likely referring to Apple's position in the market[1], where their profit - not revenue - alone ( 141b in 2021 ) dwarfs many nations' GDP[2] in the world.
I would not call it a lie.
[1]https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAPL/apple/gross-p... [2]https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?most_rec...
[0]: https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/apple-iphone-7-and-...
Wasn't the Pixel 6 assembled by Foxconn? And the upcoming Pixel 7 / foldables apparently also going to be assembled by Foxconn? That's not pulling out...
[edit to clarify we're only talking about Google]
If one believes Elon Musk's view of the Twitter situation with the app store, Apple seems to be for more censorship!
1: https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/11/netizen-voices-apple-r...