Apple to stop selling products in Russia

[herding cats]

Source: NBC

Apple has also restricted the apps for Russian state news outlets RT and Sputnik to only be visible in Russia, a spokesperson said.

Apple has halted all sales of physical products in Russia due to the country’s invasion of Ukraine, a company spokesperson said Tuesday.

Apple does not have any physical stores in Russia and normally ships its phones, computers and tablets through its online stores, and also sells products through third-party retail stores there.

The company had already recently stopped Apple Pay service in Russia after the U.S. sanctioned Russian banks.

Apple has also restricted the apps for Russian state news outlets RT and Sputnik to only be visible in Russia, according to Fred Sainz, the Apple spokesperson, and Apple Maps is no longer showing traffic in Ukraine to help protect Ukrainian citizens.



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[COL Mustard]

1. What took them so long?

The invasion started last week, ffs!

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

6. Big companies don't do anything fast.

A decision like this probably had to be voted on by the board of directors and a bunch of other red tape.

Of course, knowing Apple, they'll probably start selling in Russia again as soon as everyone's stopped paying attention. I give it a month or two, whether the fighting's still going on or not.

[COL Mustard]

7. Look at how fast European governments and other private companies acted to isolate Russia

Some of those bureaucracies are the largest and most cumbersome in the world. Apple surely could have acted a little faster. And I love their products...always have.

[speak easy]

13. What took them so long? Ask Samsung,

who sell a lot more to Russia then phones. https://www.samsung.com/ru/

[yaesu]

2. Ford Motor Co also announced today that it will be suspending operations in Russia until further

notice given Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, reported Reuters.

[Zorro]

3. That's gonna sting

[thesquanderer]

4. Considering what's happening to the ruble...

...no one in Russia is going to be able to afford an Apple product anyway.

[BootinUp]

5. The Stone Age is calling. Nt

[TeamProg]

10. They want their Neanderthals back..

- not that there's anything wrong with Neanderthals.

[Jetheels]

12. Time to learn cuneiform.

[localroger]

8. Well that'll show 'em

Without iPhones the Russians will obviously collapse within a week, right?

[TeamProg]

9. Better late than never, right Mexico?

[yaesu]

11. Boeing says it has suspended technical and maintenance support for Russian airlines Earlier today n