Tim Cook makes false claims to rationalise Apple’s China appeasement

Apple CEO Tim Cook has sent an email to employees with a lengthier explanation for why the company chose to remove HKmap.live from the App Store yesterday. Similar to Apple's statement last night, Cook claims that the app - a crowdsourced mapping tool that's become useful amid the ongoing protests in Hong Kong - was being misused in ways that could threaten public safety. Tim Cook's email is riddled with nonsense, so I'll let people more knowledgeable than me debunk this weak excuse of an explanation as to why Apple is bending over backwards to please a brutal communist genocidal dictatorship. The claims made by Cook simply don't hold up, he again refuses to cite which Hong Kong laws are being broken, and countless of Apple's own services are being used for the same purposes as HKmap.live. Will iMessage be removed next? AirDrop? Tim Cook is a coward.