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  • Apple bows to Chinese govt pressure

    12/31/2009 10:17:33 PM PST · by myknowledge · 18 replies · 801+ views
    Nine News ^ | January 1, 2010
    Bowing to Chinese law, Apple is reportedly blocking iPhone users in China from downloading applications about two figures Beijing considers "separatists": the Dalai Lama and exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer. IDG News Service said at least five iPhone software programs related to the Tibetan spiritual leader are unavailable in Apple's China App Store along with one related to Kadeer. IDG, publisher of Macworld, Computerworld, PC World and other magazines, said the move would make Apple the latest US technology giant to censor its services in China. Asked for comment on Thursday by AFP, Trudy Muller, an Apple spokeswoman, repeated a...