Tim Cook is a crook and a moral coward. Single signature signing authorities for software will always be inevitably used for evil, and here it directly has been.
Apple does have a choice here. An easy one. It could remove the requirement that all iOS apps have to be signed to run on Apple devices. Simple. And at that point the Chinese government have no further way to blackmail them.
But Apple has decided it's future ability to behave in an anti-competitive fashion is more important than democracy for the people of Hong Kong.
Apple does have a choice here. An easy one. It could remove the requirement that all iOS apps have to be signed to run on Apple devices. Simple. And at that point the Chinese government have no further way to blackmail them.
But Apple has decided it's future ability to behave in an anti-competitive fashion is more important than democracy for the people of Hong Kong.