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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsApple bows to Moscow's pressure by agreeing to show annexed Crimea as part of Russia on apps
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3039639/apple-bows-moscows-pressure-agreeing-show-annexed-crimea-partUS tech giant Apple has complied with Moscows demands to show Crimea, annexed from Ukraine in 2014, as Russian territory on its apps, lawmakers said on Wednesday.
The Black Sea peninsula and its largest cities of Sevastopol and Simferopol are now displayed as Russian territory on Apples maps and weather apps when used in Russia. Crimea does not appear to be part of any country when these apps are used in France.
Crimea and Sevastopol now appear on Apple devices as Russian territory, parliaments lower house, the State Duma, said in a statement. Russia treats the naval port city of Sevastopol as a separate region.
Russia and Apple had been in talks over the last few months, with the US giant initially trying to show Crimea as undefined territory and removing any mention of Ukraine.
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Apple bows to Moscow's pressure by agreeing to show annexed Crimea as part of Russia on apps (Original Post)
steve2470
Nov 2019
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"Google uses the Russian, rather than Ukrainian, spelling of Crimean place names"
dalton99a
Nov 2019
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dalton99a
(81,080 posts)1. "Google uses the Russian, rather than Ukrainian, spelling of Crimean place names"
It's all about the bottom line. They don't give a shit.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,041 posts)2. I don't use Google and won't touch an Apple product
lark
(23,004 posts)3. Fuck - most of our technology is Apple.
Can't afford to go out and get 2 new phones and a new home computer. I HATE that they did this and if I was still working there would be a purge of Apple products going on in my home right now.
Putin = destroyer of the world utilizing his rusty bent tool to fuck over America and liberal democracies everywhere.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)4. Apple (and Google) maps in India show K-2 being in India
Unfortunately this is a very old dance they're doing.