Apple’s Bet on China

<p>Apple built the world’s most valuable business by figuring out how to make China work for Apple.</p><p>A New York Times investigation has found that the dynamic has now changed. China has figured out how to make Apple work for China.</p><p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/jack-nicas">Jack Nicas</a>, who covers technology from San Francisco for The New York Times. He is one of the reporters behind the investigation into Apple’s compromises in China.</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/signup/NTTD?smid=pc-thedaily">Sign up here</a> to get The Daily in your inbox each morning. And for an exclusive look at how the biggest stories on our show come together, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/the-daily?module=inline">subscribe to our newsletter</a>. </p><p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>An<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-censorship-data.html?smid=pc-thedaily"> investigation from The New York Times</a> offers an extensive inside look at how Apple has given in to escalating demands from the Chinese authorities.</li><li>One of the compromises Apple made to China was storing its Chinese customers’ data on servers controlled by the Chinese government. Here are<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-privacy-censorship.html?smid=pc-thedaily"> four more takeaways from the report</a>.</li><li>In the United States,<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/technology/apple-google-leak-investigation-data-requests.html?smid=pc-thedaily"> data requests have placed Apple and other tech giants</a> in an uncomfortable position between law enforcement, the courts and the customers whose privacy they have promised to protect.</li></ul><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily">nytimes.com/thedaily</a>. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. </p>