蘋果曾拒絕向中國政府交出其源代碼

Apple said on Tuesday that it had rebuffed a Chinese government request to hand over the proprietary source code for its operating system.

蘋果(Apple)週二表示，中國政府曾要求該公司交出其操作系統的私有源代碼，但該公司沒有答應。

“We have been asked by the Chinese government and we refused,” Bruce Sewell, Apple’s general counsel, told members of the House energy and commerce committee, adding that the request came within the past two years.

蘋果總法律顧問布魯斯•休厄爾(Bruce Sewell)對美國衆議院能源和商業委員會表示：“中國政府向我們提出過這一要求，但我們拒絕了。”他還表示，這一要求是在過去兩年裏提出的。

The government recently abandoned its legal effort to compel Apple to help the FBI circumvent the passcode on an iPhone used by one of the terrorists in last year’s San Bernardino shootings.

美國政府最近放棄了法律上的努力，不再強迫蘋果幫助聯邦調查局(FBI)解鎖去年聖貝納迪諾槍擊案中一名恐怖分子使用過的iPhone。

Last month, Apple clarified its policies after the DoJ accused the company of making special accommodations for China, which the company denies.

上月，美國司法部(DoJ)指責蘋果對中國作出特別的遷就，蘋果對此予以否認，並澄清了自己的政策。

Revenues from Apple’s Greater China division, which includes Hong Kong and Taiwan, reached $18bn last quarter. Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, says that China is likely to overtake the US to become its largest market.

蘋果大中華區（含香港和臺灣）上一季度的營收達到180億美元。蘋果首席執行官蒂姆•庫克(Tim Cook)表示，中國很可能會超過美國成爲蘋果的最大市場。

Apple last week said that it had received 1,005 requests related to 2,413 devices for customer information from the Chinese authorities in the second half of 2015. Apple provided data in two-thirds of those cases.

蘋果上週表示，2015年下半年，中國當局向蘋果提出了1005項提供設備用戶信息的請求，涉及2413部設備。蘋果答應了其中三分之二的請求。

That compares with 4,000 requests for information from American investigators regarding 16,112 devices. Apple provided data in 80 per cent of those cases.

美國調查人員則提出了4000項類似的請求，涉及16112部設備。蘋果答應了其中80%的請求。