>These efforts can involve hundreds to thousands of people for multiple years.
And yet Apple had no major issues complying to the draconical demands of the CCP to sell and operate there. Weird.
Also, it's not like Apple can't afford the manpower for this. They're not a hole in the wall mon & pop shop.
The new Siri isn't available in China yet either.
Or really anywhere, since it comes out in Fall. Unless you count developer betas as available of course.
It’s also only in English initially.
They can only do so much at once. And Apple is not a “hire an extra 30,000 people“ kind of company.
Apple usually rolls stuff out in stages. This is just an extremely high profile example.