Apple should balk and just pull out of Russia over the whole thing. At $3 billion market size for iPhones (according to the article they were not clear if $3B was TAM or rather the iPhone segment of a broader mobile market), that means somewhere between 3 and 6 million Russians are going to be forced to abandon their iPhones. Nothing is more pitiful than watching a long time iPhone user try to operate an Android device. Thats how you end up with a Russian Spring kind of situation right there.
Thanks for this piece of information - the full extent of internet censorship in Russia never really crossed my mind - so I did some googling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Russia) to get up to speed. If there are any better reads on the subject please let me know. Thanks for teaching me something!
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