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Apple removes over 46,000 apps from China App Store
On the year-end deadline for all game publishers to obtain a license in China, Apple removed 39,000 game apps on its App Store in…
Apple purges thousands of apps from China App Store amid CCP pressure
Apple is purging thousands of videogame apps from the App Store in China as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) clamps down on such content…
Apple removes two RSS feed reader apps from China App Store
Two RSS reader apps, Reeder and Fiery Feeds, said this week that their iOS apps have been removed from Apple’s China App Store over content…
Apple bows to Chinese government censorship, to pull thousands of games from China App Store
Apple will start removing thousands of mobile games lacking approval of the Communist Party of China from the company’s China App Store in July…
Apple pulls U.S. podcast platform Pockets Casts from China App Store
Pockets Casts, ranked 85th most popular in the podcast news app section on Apple’s U.S website, said on Wednesday its app had been taken down from…
Apple pulls 25,000 apps from China App Store after coming under fire from state-run media
Apple Inc. pulled illegal apps from its App Store in China after coming under fire…
Apple issues statement regarding removal of VPN apps from China App Store
China’s MIIT Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced that all developers offering VPNs…
Apple removes VPN apps from China App Store
We received notification from Apple today, July 29, 2017, at roughly 04:00 GMT, that the ExpressVPN…
Apple ordered to remove ‘obscene’ content from China App Store
Apple Inc. was ordered by the government to remove obscene content that can be accessed…
Apple pulls Threads, WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal from App Store in China after CCP order
Apple said on Friday it had removed Meta Platforms’ Threads and WhatsApp apps from its App Store in China after being ordered to do so…
Apple Jing’an retail store opens on March 21st in Shanghai, China
Apple today previewed Apple Jing’an, located near Jing’an Temple and Jing’an Park in Shanghai. The store is encircled by an exterior plaza…
Apple to open new Shanghai retail store as iPhone sales slump in China
Apple is preparing to open its eighth store in Shanghai, China this month, adding to its second largest retail network after the U.S. amid…
Apple pulls Pray.com app from App Store in China
The Pray.com app is being removed from the Apple App Store in mainland China. Pray.com is the world’s No.1 app for daily prayer and Bible…
Apple Retail Store MixC Wenzhou opens this Saturday, Nov. 4th in China
Apple today previewed Apple MixC Wenzhou, the company’s first store in the city and the fourth in China’s Zhejiang province. The new store…
Apple to open 46th Apple Retail Store in mainland China on November 4th
On July 19, 2008, Apple opened its first retail store in China in Beijing. At the time, Ron Johnson, Apple’s then-senior vice president of…
CCP crackdown threatens to remove X, Facebook, Instagram from Apple’s App Store in China
The Chinese Communist Party push to register foreign apps threatens to remove Facebook, Instagram and X from Apple’s App Store in China…
China lists mobile app stores that comply with new rule, Apple’s App Store not included
China’s cyberspace regulator on Wednesday released names of mobile app stores that have completed filing business details to regulators…
Apple pulls dozens of generative AI apps from App Store in China ahead of CCP speech crackdown
Apple has reportedly removed over 100 AI apps from its Chinese App Store that are believed to violate the country’s new regulations on…
Apple plans to expand and revitalize its retail stores worldwide, push deep into China
Apple plans to expand and revitalize its worldwide chain of retail stores, pushing deeper into China and other parts of Asia while…
Apple Retail Store MixC Shenzhen opens April 28th in China
Apple today previewed Apple MixC Shenzhen, the second store in thet city. The new store will serve as an accessible and inclusive space for…
Didi Global’s ride-hailing app back on Apple’s App Store in China
Chinese technology company Didi Global’s domestic ride-hailing app has returned to China’s domestic Apple App Store…
Bank of America: Apple seeing ‘modest’ re-acceleration in App Store, China
Apple’s stock price fell early in Tuesday trading as Bank of Americas’ investment arm said that Apple is seeing a “modest” re-acceleration…
Apple to open new retail store in Wuhan, China on Saturday
Last year, Apple began construction for a new store in Wuhan, China, that was originally scheduled to open in September 2022, but…
China’s Xiaomi vows ‘War of Life and Death’ against Apple iPhone; pledges to open 20,000 retail stores in China
Apple iPhone knockoff peddler Xiaomi will ratchet up its challenge to Apple by focusing on the high-end segment of the global smartphone…
Gay dating app Grindr pulled from Apple App Store in China
Days after The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) vowed to renew its campaign to police online content, a popular gay dating app, Grindr, has…
China demands that Apple pull Didi Chuxing ride-hailing app from App Store
China’s cyberspace regulator has ordered app stores to remove Didi Chuxing. This includes Apple’s App Store. Apple in 2016 invested $1B…
Sales have shifted online in China as Apple’s newest iPhone 12 hits stores
Two of Apple’s latest iPhone 12 models went on sale in China on Friday, after early pre-order data showed strong consumer interest…
China’s high app store fees make Apple’s look cheap
The words “app store” appeared 340 times in a report accusing Big Tech of abusing its market power. They should see China’s app stores …
Apple removes 30,000 apps from App Store in China
According to data from research firm Qimai, Apple on Saturday pulled 29,800 apps from the company’s App Store in China, including more than…
Apple closes retail stores worldwide, except in Greater China, until March 27
Apple has published a letter from CEO Tim Cook addressed to “the worldwide Apple family” regarding Apple’s efforts to help curtail the global COVID-19…
Apple reopens all 42 retail stores in China
After it was forced to close them last month due to the coronavirus outbreak, Apple has reopened all 42 of the company’s retail stores in China …
Apple pulls pandemic simulation game Plague Inc. from App Store in China
Ndemic Creations, maker of the pandemic simulation game Plague Inc., says the game has been pulled from Apple’s App Store in China because Chinese…
Apple reopens more than half of retail stores in China
Apple has reopened more than half of its retail stores in China after closing all outlets due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak…
10 more Apple Retail Stores reopen in China
At the beginning of February, Apple closed its entire chain of retail stores in China. Now, it’s reopening 10 more Apple Retail Stores reopen in China…
Apple Stores in China won’t reopen as planned due to coronavirus
Apple employees have been notified by the company that Apple Stores in China won’t reopen as planned due to the coronavirus outbreak…
Analyst: Apple Retail Store closures in China pose ‘containable’ risk
Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives says, the Apple Retail Store closures in China likely won’t cause the loss of significant sales…
All Apple Stores closed in mainland China due to coronavirus outbreak
On Saturday, Apple said, all Apple Stores and corporate offices are closed in mainland China until February 9th, as fears over the coronavirus outbreak…
Apple closes store, restricts employee travel due to China coronavirus
Apple CEO Tim Cook said today that the company is restricting travel and have closed one store in China amid the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak…
Apple removes Quartz news app from App Store in China over Hong Kong coverage
Apple has removed Quartz’s mobile app from the App Store in China after complaints from the Chinese government due to the publication’s ongoing coverage of the Hong Kong protests…
Morgan Stanley: Apple’s App Store growth accelerated in July driven by strength in China
Morgan Stanley’s Katy Huberty wrote Wednesday that growth rates for Apple Inc.’s App Store picked up in July
Analyst: Apple investors ‘overreacting’ to U.S.-China trade war and Supreme Court App Store ruling
Apple investors are overreacting to the financial threat posed by the U.S.-China trade war…