Employees from the American technology giant Apple (AAPL.O) have been meeting with officials in China over the past several months to express their worries about new laws that would ban the company from releasing many foreign apps that are now accessible on its app store nationwide.
The officials are said to have instructed Apple to strictly enforce the restrictions prohibiting unregistered apps from other countries, as stated in the story, which quoted people familiar with the matter.
Apple did not immediately react to Reuters’s request for a comment from the company.
Beijing has significantly boosted its monitoring of mobile apps and smartphones over the past few years. Consequently, mobile app stores and applications are legally obligated to report financial information to the government.
The fact that Apple’s App Store was left off the list of mobile app shops that China’s Internet administration listed on Wednesday indicates that the newly enacted rules and guidelines are slowly being implemented.
Apple has not provided any details on how its Chinese app store would comply with the new regulations that Beijing has implemented. If Apple complies, tens of thousands of programs may be removed from its app store in China. This is the consensus among industry analysts.
According to WSJ, employees at Apple were concerned about how the restrictions would be enforced and how this would affect the company’s customers.
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