Apple Intelligence Coming to China in December With iOS 27.3

Meanwhile, we're still waiting for Apple to do something intelligent here in the USA, this quarter.

So China is apparently easier to deal with than the EU...

It would be fascinating to learn about the development of Chinese model: All of the guardrails that have to be in place. All of the government-approved messaging that has to be substituted where applicable. Will Genmoji/Image Playground generate Winnie the Pooh?

EUROPE…ZERO !??

So China is apparently easier to deal with than the EU...

Yeah, if by easier you mean 'do what we say or bad things happen' that's the CCP culture.

It would be fascinating to learn about the development of Chinese model: All of the guardrails that have to be in place. All of the government-approved messaging that has to be substituted where applicable. Will Genmoji/Image Playground generate Winnie the Pooh?

HAHAHAHA, the insecurity to ban a cartoon character over that. Say what you want about Trump, who looks like a cartoon character, despite the bravado, still isn't so insecure as to ban blonde hair dye and fake tan!!! haha

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Is that even legal to say in the CCP? Seriously.. a higher power than their dictator?!

Hey Siri, tell me about the forced sterilization of Yughurs.

Siri: I will forward your request to the CCP and the CAC. In the meantime if nice young men in uniforms with rifles happen to knock on your door, please answer and enjoy your pre booked trip!

Just wanting to add this: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/socialpolicy/2020/10/13/chinas-forced-sterilisation-on-the-uyghur-women-a-gross-violation-of-human-rights/

The photo editing and spelling ones are quite neat!

I bet they've spent a lot of their blood money on custom commands to ensure special photo editing of anything unfavourable to the regime. I wonder if they've got a John Cena Siri voice!!!

A bigger concern is... did Apple actually come up with a completely different version of Apple Intelligence (and iCloud, and...) for China? Or does every instance of Apple Intelligence, for every country, have the same version... but there's just a little toggle that says "Gov spying Y/N"?

They've essentially allowed a government run company (any company in the CCP is one frankly), to handle all of the data storage in data centre terms. Gives the government ownership of peoples data, scanning, etc. It's Apple's 'human rights credits' similar to how other companies buy carbon credits. They feel better at night about it, but frankly they're still facilitating / doing the damage in my book. Until they fix their production / supply chain, their hands are tied though.

I'd just refuse to offer it, but if Apple does that, the power will suddenly go out at some of its factories. Never make a deal with the devil, kids.

I can’t help but find it kinda funny Apple is happier to compromise their Chinese user’s privacy than potentially losing lock in power

But if you look under the surface you can’t really fault them for that honestly

I wouldn’t want to waste months of engineering time for something nobody’s gonna use
Like when they rushed to add an API for third party music services on HomePod cause Spotify cried about it only for them to never support it.

(Also you literally have no choice in China)