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12.06.17
Apple in China: WTF?
In November, the non-profit watchdog Freedom House called China “the worst abuser of Internet freedom” of the 65 countries it surveyed. And yet, on December 3, Apple CEO Tim Cook keynoted China’s annual World Internet Conference. “The theme of this...
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12.04.17Apple CEO Backs China’s Vision of an ‘Open’ Internet as Censorship Reaches New Heights
Washington Post
Reading headlines from the World Internet Conference in China, the casual reader might have come away a little confused. China was opening its doors to the global Internet, some media outlets optimistically declared, while others said Beijing was...
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03.17.17Apple Plans Two More R&D Centers in China as Its Challenges in the Country Continue
CNBC
Apple has announced plans to set up two new research and development centers in China amid continued challenges to the iPhone maker in the world’s second-largest economy.
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11.05.14
Tim Cook Coming Out Has Turned China Into a Nation of Fifth-Graders
"Let me be clear," wrote Apple CEO Tim Cook in a Bloomberg Businessweek article published on October 30. "I'm proud to be gay."Within an hour of the article's publication, Cook's first public announcement of his...
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01.21.13Apple and China: A Match Made in Heaven?
Diplomat
China has long played a major role in Apple’s success after it moved much of its manufacturing from the U.S. to China and other Asian nations in the 1990’s.
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01.11.13Apple CEO: China Will Be Biggest Market
Associated Press
Apple has said sales in China more than doubled in 2010 and 2011 though growth has slowed in the past year.