<story><title>Apple is officially no longer selling the newest Apple Watch in America</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/26/tech/apple-watch-ban/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rogerkirkness</author><text>Google doesn&amp;#x27;t do business in China because they won&amp;#x27;t agree to the privacy violating terms of doing so, that is at least a $1T principle if you compare it to the amount of hardware and services that Apple sells there.</text></item><item><author>fragmede</author><text>I trust Apple&amp;#x27;s commitment to privacy as much as I do Google&amp;#x27;s, but when they both remove a product over a stupid patent rather than pay the patent holder (Sonos&amp;#x27; sued Google with their multiroom audio patent), we can see that it&amp;#x27;s possible for corporations to hold principled views about things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snotrockets</author><text>Google’s executives would very much like to operate in China, only they faced public pressure (the term to search for is “project dragonfly”).&lt;p&gt;I won’t be surprised if they’ll retry to enter China soon.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple is officially no longer selling the newest Apple Watch in America</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/26/tech/apple-watch-ban/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rogerkirkness</author><text>Google doesn&amp;#x27;t do business in China because they won&amp;#x27;t agree to the privacy violating terms of doing so, that is at least a $1T principle if you compare it to the amount of hardware and services that Apple sells there.</text></item><item><author>fragmede</author><text>I trust Apple&amp;#x27;s commitment to privacy as much as I do Google&amp;#x27;s, but when they both remove a product over a stupid patent rather than pay the patent holder (Sonos&amp;#x27; sued Google with their multiroom audio patent), we can see that it&amp;#x27;s possible for corporations to hold principled views about things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mulmen</author><text>Is that a fair comparison?  Apple sells devices, Google sells targeted advertising.  Their business and constraints are different.</text></comment>