It has been reported that iTunes access has been restored in China on Saturday after being unavailable since earlier this week. It is speculated that the catalyst for both events surrounds the “Songs for Tibet” offering which was featured prominently as a recommended download when iTunes became inaccessible and has now been removed from that section as Apple periodically refreshes those selections.
via Music2dot0
Please note that source, in my opinion, contains spurious criticisms which would better be refuted here in an Op-Ed piece.
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Maths
28th August 2008, 02.00 am
Spurious? The report “Will the Real Apple Please Stand Up”was as every bit factual as it could be! Apple has to realize that engaging in political positioning under the guise of music is not going to fly universally and that is where it has to make choices based on individual markets.
As reported in Digital Music News (http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/082408parting )
“The naive outlook is that Apple operates from the heart, that Steve Jobs consults his Zen Buddhist teachings before making a business decision. In reality, this is a shrewd company like any other, one that is going to carefully and dispassionately weigh the pros and cons of any policy decision. And in the latest situation, that means weighing the fallout associated with any compliance with Chinese censorship, especially as it relates to something like Tibet.
And this is just one component in a more complicated relationship between Apple and China.
And so are the intricacies involved in balancing the interests of a global audience, one that traverses different cultural and humanitarian sensibilities.”
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