Tim Cook’s company listens to China’s state media. After the media of China this month accused Apple that it was in no hurry to remove content banned in the region from the app store, at least 4,000 apps disappeared from the App Store.
The measures primarily affected gambling applications and fake lotteries. As Apple noted, it simply followed the rules according to which “gambling programs are illegal and are not allowed to be published in the App Store in China.”
However, according to the Chinese edition of CCTV, the main reason for both Apple’s criticism and the further purge of the store was a large number of programs that were issued by developers for official applications of state lotteries. Tickets of the latter are not distributed digitally.
The speed with which Apple responds to criticism from the Chinese media is explained both by the size of the market and by the fact that the company’s devices are manufactured in this country.
The Apple company, as noted in Bloomberg, may also now be afraid of a boycott of American products in China due to the ongoing trade war between the United States and China. The latter may also be associated with the close attention of regulators and the press to Apple.
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