Apple CEO Tim Cook defends his company's decision to remove an app used by Hong Kong protesters
New York In the latest struggle for an American company to navigate the tricky waters of doing business in China, Apple CEO Tim Cook defended his company's decision to pull a map app that Hong Kong protesters had used to track police.
In a memo to employees on Thursday, Cook said Apple removed HKmap.live from its App Store Thursday, because it had been used in ways that"endanger law enforcement and residents in Hong Kong." The memo was anonymously posted on Pastebin, a website that allows people to post items without revealing their identities. The text was confirmed by a source with knowledge of the memo. Hong Kong has been rocked by several months of protests from anti-government demonstrators.
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