Okay, Apple caved to save their bread and butter; I'm not nominating Apple for corporate sainthood. However, they are not building a business model based on exploiting our data. They should get credit for that and be allowed to point out the problem with that kind of business.

Sounds like you are suggesting Apple should have simply stopped doing any business in China. Simple, right?

As simple as asking a company built on data collection to stop collecting it. Maybe simpler.

No, just observing the hypocrisy in their pro-privacy statements. Or is it that privacy of Chinese users is not worth the same as that of wester users?

Do you follow the laws of foreign countries when you travel, even though you live somewhere else?

If they are that immoral to you, you can just choose not to visit that country.

Edit: Would you go and visit North Korea on a vacation with your family?

Not if they are immoral.

i.e. they don't have a choice?

So, maybe don't say hypocritical statements like this? Google's and Fb's core business is ad-tech. Do they have a choice when it comes to data-collection? (I say this as someone who has uninstalled both Messenger and Fb app)