After the invasion of Ukraine, he confronted almost the whole world. Russia, also dealing with big sanctions from tech companies. Arousing curiosity as it stopped its sale in Russia applenow too Crimea region on Apple Maps He made an interesting decision.
According to the innovation noticed by Mashable, Apple’s local maps and Weather forecast services now show Crimea as a Ukrainian territory for users outside of Russia. This peninsula, occupied by Russia since 2014, has been quietly handed over to Ukraine, at least according to Apple.
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Apple reconnects Crimea to Ukraine
It is said to have been occupied by Russia and separated from Ukraine before. Crimeadid not show up as belonging to any country in Apple’s apps. However, Apple changed this decision in 2019. Users in many parts of the world, including Turkey, for more than three years Crimea is part of Russia was marked as.
This decision taken by Apple naturally caused the anger of the Ukrainian people and Ukrainian politicians. There were harsh statements against Apple services used by thousands of people, and on social media. #CrimeaIsUkraine Labels such as (Crimea is Ukraine) were launched.
Meanwhile, Russian officials said that they supported the company by interpreting Apple’s decision as correcting a mistake.
But if we go back to the present, the operations carried out by Russia in the last week may result in the loss of territory for the country under Putin. apple, Crimea as part of Ukraine It started to take a contrary stance towards 2019 by marking it as
The other sanctions that Apple has taken against Russia are also not to be underestimated. In addition to stopping sales of Apple products in Russia, from all App Stores except Russia Russia Today and Sputnik News lifted.
The Apple announcement explaining these sanctions, Apple Maps and Weather forecast It should be noted that he did not mention the changes in his applications.
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