# Apple deepens China assembly and a local App Store under PRC rules

Date: 2016

## The fact

Through the 2010s Apple concentrated final assembly in China and operated a local App Store under PRC content rules, a completed localisation cluster [Cook](/people/tim-cook) as CEO signed 10-Ks for.

## Context

Neighbouring Foxconn labour is the shop-floor file. Neighbouring FBI 2016 is a different encryption sovereignty. He did not write a Cyberspace Administration statute.

Foxconn 2012 is neighbouring labour. FBI 2016 is neighbouring US encryption.

Tim Cook has been Apple CEO since 24 August 2011. He does not write a DOJ complaint, a Commission DMA decision, an Irish Finance Act, or a Chinese Cyberspace Administration rule. Steve Jobs is a different, dead person. A product launch is not a labour statute. A privacy keynote is not a completed DMA compliance certificate. Keep those dates separate. A 10-K climate page is not a unique ppm. An assembler audit is not a unique suicide count as his personal tally. A DMA listing is not a completed sideload world. A DOJ complaint is not a breakup. TSMC fabricates; Foxconn assembles; App Review enforces.

## Evidence and sources

United States Securities and Exchange Commission carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is energy-adjacent supply-chain and [personal-data-protection](/drivers/personal-data-protection): completed China concentration is a geopolitical-and-speech cost of scale. A 10-K is not a unique takedown count.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 2010s Apple China manufacturing concentration and local store, independently reported in 10-Ks and press.

Not established: that he authored every App Store takedown in China, or a unique later tariff coefficient from one 10-K.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Foxconn assembled. CAC set content rules. Users in China sat behind them.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Apple deepens China assembly and a local App Store under PRC rules, not a later speech about Apple deepens China assembly and a local App Store under PRC rules.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Apple deepens China assembly and a local App Store under PRC rules on 2016-04-26 is not a licence to treat every later United States Securities and Exchange Commission communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Apple deepens China assembly and a local App Store under PRC rules into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He was CEO of the 10-K issuer. Foxconn assembled. CAC set content rules. Users in China sat behind them. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Tim Cook: https://factrail.ai/people/tim-cook

## Drivers

- Personal-Data Protection: https://factrail.ai/drivers/personal-data-protection
- Digital-Rights and Platform-Power Regulation: https://factrail.ai/drivers/tech-digital-rights-regulation
- Energy Security: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-security

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-china-idUSKCN0XN0K4
- https://www.sec.gov/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/aapl-china-production