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On the year-end deadline for all game publishers to obtain a license in communist China, Apple removed 39,000 game apps on its App Store in the country on Thursday, the biggest removal ever in a single day.

The takedowns come amid a crackdown on unlicensed games by Chinese authorities.

Including the 39,000 games, Apple removed more than 46,000 apps in total from its store on Thursday.

Apple initially gave game publishers an end-of-June deadline to submit a government-issued licence number enabling users to make in-app purchases in the world’s biggest games market.

Apple later extended the deadline to December 31.

MacDailyNews Note: Apple has been forced to remove tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of apps from the App Store in China over recent years.

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1. Do as I say not as I do

   Thursday, December 31, 2020 at 1:16 pm

   awesome apple ! Lets stomp out freedom every chance we can. Not to mention, no moral stance is worth risking access to cheap slave labor.

   Apple initially gave game publishers an end-of-June deadline to submit a government-issued licence number enabling users to make in-app purchases in the world’s biggest games market.

   (well at least it won’t effect the bottom line)
   Analysts said the move was no surprise as Apple continues to close loopholes to fall in line with China’s content regulators, and would not directly affect Apple’s bottom line as much as previous removals.

   the stories about the golden Apple empire you dont read on MDN.

   Apple benefits from forced Uighur labor, according to an explosive new report

   https://apple.news/ATyARh5LaRXyAhJf2nInoOw

   https://www.aspi.org.au/report/uyghurs-sale

   more than 80,000 Uyghurs were forced transferred out of Xinjiang to work in factories across China and some of them were sent directly from detention camps.2 The estimated figure is conservative and the actual figure is likely to be far higher. In factories far away from home, they typically live in segregated dormitories,3 undergo organised Mandarin and ideological training outside working hours,4 are subject to constant surveillance, and are forbidden from participating in religious observances.5 Numerous sources, including government documents, show that transferred workers are assigned minders and have limited freedom of movement.6

   (sounds like a work environment that Tim can be proud of)

   According to a now deleted press release,117 Cook praised the company for its ‘humane approach towards employees’ during his visit to O-Film, asserting that workers seemed ‘able to gain growth at the company, and live happily.’118

   Apple supplier accused of using forced labor to create iPhone screens

   https://apple.news/Ag0aDxmf6RUG9y2kQzDYXMg

   Glad to see Tim’s Apple standing by principles. Great Job Tim! you earned every penny of your salary of $3.4 million and a bonus of $8 – $12 million. Everyone in apple’s supply chain can sleep warm and free (metaphorically) tonight knowing the big chief is brining home the bacon. They all are doing their part to help you reach that 2nd billion. No pain no gain right time.

   1. TxUser

      Thursday, December 31, 2020 at 11:14 pm

      Since you are so brave, why don’t you go to China and break one of their laws in front of a policeman? If you don’t like to travel, just break a US law you disapprove of in front of a policeman.

2. Thursday, December 31, 2020 at 2:59 pm

   AAPL bows to its master, the CCP.

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