Apple bows to Moscow's pressure by agreeing to show annexed Crimea as part of Russia on apps

[steve2470]

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3039639/apple-bows-moscows-pressure-agreeing-show-annexed-crimea-part

US tech giant Apple has complied with Moscow’s demands to show Crimea, annexed from Ukraine in 2014, as Russian territory on its apps, lawmakers said on Wednesday.

The Black Sea peninsula and its largest cities of Sevastopol and Simferopol are now displayed as Russian territory on Apple’s maps and weather apps when used in Russia. Crimea does not appear to be part of any country when these apps are used in France.

“Crimea and Sevastopol now appear on Apple devices as Russian territory,” parliament’s lower house, the State Duma, said in a statement. Russia treats the naval port city of Sevastopol as a separate region.

Russia and Apple had been in talks over the last few months, with the US giant initially trying to show Crimea as undefined territory and removing any mention of Ukraine.

[dalton99a]

1. "Google uses the Russian, rather than Ukrainian, spelling of Crimean place names"

It's all about the bottom line. They don't give a shit.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. I don't use Google and won't touch an Apple product

[lark]

3. Fuck - most of our technology is Apple.

Can't afford to go out and get 2 new phones and a new home computer. I HATE that they did this and if I was still working there would be a purge of Apple products going on in my home right now.

Putin = destroyer of the world utilizing his rusty bent tool to fuck over America and liberal democracies everywhere.

[Recursion]

4. Apple (and Google) maps in India show K-2 being in India

Unfortunately this is a very old dance they're doing.