In December last year Tim Cook he met with Lu Wei, the Chinese Minister for Cyberspace, and then he would have given his consent for the government to carry out security checks on Apple products. The offer was made after months of criticism of Apple products for the poor security provided for data, a local television in 2014 calling the iPhone a national security problem.
iPhones have been criticized because the fact that GPS location information can be stolen by hackers or intercepted by connecting to the terminal, and a person's location can be easily discovered. In order to appease the authorities, Tim Cook agreed to the thorough checking of the products Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, the Chinese authorities accepting.
China also banned the purchase of Apple products for its government agencies, and last year it also carried out a phishing attack against iCloud, redirecting all national iCloud traffic to its own servers. Although for now no details have been provided regarding the discoveries made by the Chinese government, probably the relations between the government and the company will improve in the future.
China is one of the most important markets for the Apple company, it generates 10% of the total revenues of the Americans, so Tim Cook must offer special treatment for it.
