Chinese twist to Apple's privacy stand-off
The company is playing the long game with its business because if it cooperates with one government, it will have to cooperate with all of them
San Francisco
IT TOOK six years for Apple to persuade China's largest wireless carrier, China Mobile, to sell the iPhone. Apple's chief executive, Tim Cook, made repeated trips to China to meet top government officials and executives to woo them personally.
The persistence paid off. In 2013, China Mobile relented, a moment that Mr Cook later described as "a watershed day" for Apple.
Today, China is Apple's second largest market after the United Sta…
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