BEIJING: One of the ways Chinese kids like to pass their time is watching video on a site called Leshi TV that’s sufficiently popular the company’s CEO Jia Yueting is ranked among the planet’s billionaires.
Jia is also an enthusiastic user of Weibo, China’s Twitter equivalent. And late last week he used it to post the image below depicting Adolf Hitler wearing an armband with the Apple logo instead of a swastika.
The CEO’s trying to make a point that Apple exercises very rigid control over its ecosystem, to the exclusion of all contenders and therefore to the detriment of consumers. His post labels Apple arrogant and suggests that the company’s empire is waning. He’s re-stated that position in rather less controversial terms using the image at right.
Jia’s empire is about to release Android handsets, so the CEO is clearly trying to stir things up.
