{"id":35154,"date":"2022-03-02T15:51:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T20:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=35154"},"modified":"2022-03-07T16:32:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T21:32:45","slug":"apple-halts-sales-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/02\/apple-halts-sales-in-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Halts Sales in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Apple today confirmed that it has stopped all product sales from its online website in Russia<\/a>, which means customers in Russia can no longer purchase Macs, iPhones, iPads, and other Apple devices. Attempting to make a purchase from the Russia store results in a “delivery unavailable” result when trying to add a product to the online cart.<\/p>\n

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Apple said in a statement<\/a> that it has also stopped all exports into the sales channel in the country and disabled traffic and live incidents in Apple Maps in Ukraine as a safety and precautionary measure for Ukrainian citizens.<\/p>\n

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As of now, App Store access has not been eliminated in Russia, but Apple Pay has been limited and major banks in Russia are not able to use the service. RT News and Sputnik News have been removed from the App Store outside of Russia, in addition to Apple’s other measures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Adam Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Nothing I can say or do will have any impact on the actual conflict, but I wanted to remind readers that this is not just some tempest in a teapot on the other side of the world. Ukraine has a flourishing Apple development community that’s home to MacPaw<\/a> (Setapp, Clean My Mac X, Gemini, and more), BeLight Software<\/a> (Live Home 3D, Swift Publisher, and more), Readdle<\/a> (PDF Expert, Spark, and more), CS Odessa<\/a> (ConceptDraw), and Skylum<\/a> (Luminar), among others.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Update (2022-03-07): Ben Thompson<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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While it has been only 11 days since Russia invaded Ukraine, it is already clear that the long-term impact on the tech industry is going to be substantial. The goal of this Article is to explore what those implications might be.<\/p>\n

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