iCloud the reason behind Russia’s decision to ban iPhone from 2015

And as such, if this law is enforced, Apple may forever be wiped out from the country.

Cloud law

This law applies to the servers where cloud data is kept.

So the problem that Apple faces, is with iCloud.

iCloud servers are based in the US.

And as per the law, devices having iCloud cannot be used in the country.

Any service that uses cloud storage by default will be affected, this includes social websites as well.

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What means do companies have to continue their presence in the country?

For one, Apple could make a web server farm in Russia itself.

However, the opinion is that this might set a bad precedent.

Considering our yesterdays report onApple using cloud backup as a backdoor, this could thwart all of these questions.

The balls in Apples court now…