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They get permission when they do it professionally or as a company. Else it is a crime anyway.

Only if you have a written authorization from the company you try to attack.
Else they are nothing better than a criminal hacker.

" to expand Alibaba into a finance" is not intrinsically a crime in a free country, so if China is really a free country, why Jack Ma was paid for something he don’t yet did ?

Jack Ma was punished because he had the courage (or stupidity given the situation) to criticize Chinese estabilishment for stifling innovation and economics, then Xi Jinping retaliate and Jack Ma went off the radar (only to be remerges after Xi Jinping “rehabilitated” him)

So yes, to me China is a regime. And if you think my intellect is not up to your idea of quality, you are free to move to China and to live in what I suppose you consider a better country.

True, but I am afraid that the definition of “they act shitty” in China is very different from the one in the US.
Jack Ma paid because he criticized the regime, not because Alibaba was failing.

The difference is that now Apple has its fan base and their products are not a niche anymore.

Hobby project coding is solved.

Not if you want to build something more complex than the usual todo manager or likewyse simple software in my experience.
And even in this case it output just something taken from examples around the internet, so it is not writing code, it is just better at finding the (hopefully) better examples.