Apple donates $4M for Chinese app development; visit to DeepSeek’s hometown

Apple has donated 30 million yuan ($4.1 million) to Zhejiang University to help fund app development training in China. CEO Tim Cook has also visited Hangzhou, China’s artificial intelligence hub and home to the developers of the controversial chatbot DeepSeek … Apple diplomacy in China Despite moves to diversify production in India, Thailand, and elsewhere, Apple remains highly dependent on China, with the vast majority of the world’s iPhones made in a single plant there. The relationship between the US and China has often been a strained one, however, with the government even going so far as to actively discourage its citizens from buying iPhones. It’s no surprise, then, that the company engages in a number of diplomatic efforts in the form of funding for government initiatives. One of the longest running of these has been the Mobile Application Innovation Competition, which has helped more than 30,000 Chinese Students. Apple donates $4M for Chinese app development Apple has to ... Read full article.