With one-fifth of its revenue from the PRC, Apple prioritizes profitability over patriotism.
regulators that devices “…include hundreds of components – each with their own complex supply chains – sourced from around the world from trusted vendors and suppliers. Even network products that are assembled in the United States by U.S. companies rely on foreign inputs from their global partners.” Growing supply chain challenges and geopolitical uncertainty likely increases the probability that any iPhone could have a YMTC chip.
. In 2017 Apple launched a joint venture in the PRC to build a data center per the country’s Cybersecurity Law, presumably to enable the ease of government access to Apple customer data.Apple has already architected the PRC’s preferred model of surveillance and censorship, and it is deployed on 230 million PRC users. To extend these systems to other countries is not necessarily difficult from a technical perspective.
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