What dangerous precedent? That Apple is a company that is governed by the rule of law?
I find it fundamentally strange that we expect our corporate overlords to do anything other than maximize their profits. I'd certainly like them to do more than that, but I don't have the expectation that they will. And expecting them to break the law, or leave the Chinese market, is simply just crazy.
It sucks that China treats its citizens in this manner, but I plan on abiding by Chinese law the next time I'm in China or I wouldn't go. Why should Apple be any different, and why is this somehow their fault?
>I find it fundamentally strange that we expect our corporate overlords to do anything other than maximize their profits.
There is difference between what we can realistically expect people to do (often, not much, and even after accounting for that, still disappoint) and what they should do and we should expect them do (do what is right).
To continue with the illustrative examples from fiction. Nobody expects Theoden to do much anything useful after listening to all that poison of pouring out of mouth of the Wormtongue. But is it what he should be doing?
I find it fundamentally strange that we expect our corporate overlords to do anything other than maximize their profits. I'd certainly like them to do more than that, but I don't have the expectation that they will. And expecting them to break the law, or leave the Chinese market, is simply just crazy.
It sucks that China treats its citizens in this manner, but I plan on abiding by Chinese law the next time I'm in China or I wouldn't go. Why should Apple be any different, and why is this somehow their fault?