EUROPEAN is obviously not the only country that has to do without the new News App in Apple's mobile operating system iOS. 9 In China, the Group has the use of apparently equal quite blocked and not even waiting for censorship by the authorities.
China has traditionally been a difficult market for Western tech companies. If companies such as Facebook and Twitter do not abide by the censorship rules of the state, threatening their apps and websites blocking. As the New York Times reports now, Apple has apparently decided for this reason to terminate his new News App in iOS 9 in China the same throughout for users. The reason for this significant form of self-censorship should be clear: China is for Apple and the new iPhone 6s after the United States become the second most important market in the world.
News App hitherto used without trick only in the US
Apple News App - reminiscent in design and shape on Flipboard - was released along with iOS 9 in mid-September. Currently the application works officially only in the US, UK and Australia is running a trial version. With a trick, however, users in Germany were able to use the News App. The linguistic region is simply changed over the iPhone or iPad in the United States. In China, however, even this trick works not know how the blogger and entrepreneur Larry Salibra noted. He then published a blog post and speculated that blocking the News App in China related to the identification of the mobile operator.
Apple has so far not commented on the self-censorship in its News App.
China has traditionally been a difficult market for Western tech companies. If companies such as Facebook and Twitter do not abide by the censorship rules of the state, threatening their apps and websites blocking. As the New York Times reports now, Apple has apparently decided for this reason to terminate his new News App in iOS 9 in China the same throughout for users. The reason for this significant form of self-censorship should be clear: China is for Apple and the new iPhone 6s after the United States become the second most important market in the world.
News App hitherto used without trick only in the US
Apple News App - reminiscent in design and shape on Flipboard - was released along with iOS 9 in mid-September. Currently the application works officially only in the US, UK and Australia is running a trial version. With a trick, however, users in Germany were able to use the News App. The linguistic region is simply changed over the iPhone or iPad in the United States. In China, however, even this trick works not know how the blogger and entrepreneur Larry Salibra noted. He then published a blog post and speculated that blocking the News App in China related to the identification of the mobile operator.
Apple has so far not commented on the self-censorship in its News App.
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