If Apple shows off that they can and will remotely brick iOS devices at US demand, how many Chinese people (their soon to be largest market, and fastest growing market) will buy iPhones in the future?
Do you think the Chinese government would permit iPhones to then be sold in China?
Worse yet, do you think the Chinese government would continue to allow iPhones to be manufactured in China (where the vast majority of all iPhones sold worldwide are made)?
Apple ceases to exist without China.
What you are advocating is corporate suicide, and that doesn't benefit Ukraine, the US, or Apple.
EDIT:
Also, you are advocating for bricking the mobile phones of approximately 100% of all medical doctors and firefighters and EMS in a country of a hundred and fifty million people.
That would kill more people in 24 hours than have died in the entire Ukraine invasion so far.
Apple smartphone market share is like 8% in Russia according to a quick DDG search. Maybe stop with exagerations...
Also if people don't already know that remotely updateable device can be bricked by the manufacturer, they're just very ignorant. But yeah, people pop up on HN again and again surprised that Google can just take away everything from them without a moment's notice, so that one is not a remote possibility. People just don't understand technology very well.
Anyway, I'm against bricking phones. That'll not do any good. It will harm communication between disidents, and spread of news/information, too.
Do you think the Chinese government would permit iPhones to then be sold in China?
Worse yet, do you think the Chinese government would continue to allow iPhones to be manufactured in China (where the vast majority of all iPhones sold worldwide are made)?
Apple ceases to exist without China.
What you are advocating is corporate suicide, and that doesn't benefit Ukraine, the US, or Apple.
EDIT:
Also, you are advocating for bricking the mobile phones of approximately 100% of all medical doctors and firefighters and EMS in a country of a hundred and fifty million people.
That would kill more people in 24 hours than have died in the entire Ukraine invasion so far.