Apple’s Tim Cook optimistic that apps pulled from Chinese App Store will return

(Reuters) — Apple is optimistic that some of its popular apps removed from its China App Store this year to comply with government requests will be reinstated, the U.S. tech giant’s Chief Executive Tim Cook said on Wednesday.
Cook, speaking at the Fortune Forum in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, also stressed that he believes strongly in freedoms, a comment seen by many as a response to a U.S. Democratic senator’s remarks on Tuesday that Apple had a moral obligation to