Wait apple is still operating in Russia? Weren’t we sanctioning them or something?
TL;DR: they stopped selling hardware in Russia, but people still find a way to import it.
It also looks like they are still maintaining Russia’s region in the AppStore.
I can understand smuggled hardware, but it’s not like Russians can buy their localized App Store in India… it would be much more helpful if they weren’t running it there, as the smuggled iPhones would be just bricks
Thing is, if they kill the App Store entirely, they also fuck over Russians that already have iPhones and are fleeing the country, and or dissenting the government.
Looks like they’re trying to leave as much of the App Store as available as possible. That said, at some point the government censorship will become so bad that they might need to pull the plug entirely.
And that said, if they allowed proper side loading, this wouldn’t be an issue. They could just peace out entirely.
We are but not like that lol
Eitherway sanctions is just increased cost of doing business, ie they don’t stop good business.
Apologise for the crude description, but sanctions are like masturbation. They make the person doing it feel a little better. That’s about it.
Classic stuff, Apple. While I can wrap my head around them sucking off China since that is where all their child labor factories are, playing ball with Russia shows who they are. Glad I switched to an open source OS for my phone.
shows who they are.
A corporation. And when corporations have to make a choice, profit will always come first.
Yeah but sometimes it also feels like they wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire either tho lol just because
Oh no… They WOULD piss on you. Just not to help put out the fire.
There’s no child labour factories in China, this is just racism. The child labour is in the USA.
How about not having different app stores for every region?
The real answer is to let people load apps from outside of the App Store.
If you’re going to run an AppStore, you’re going to be subject to the laws of every country, and you’ll have to segment it by region.
The real answer is to let people load apps from outside of the App Store.
Yes!
This has been possible for awhile now
So all the shit banned in China, North Korea, etc. we lose it too then? You fucking moron
I see from your post history, it’s full of great comments. Not sure why your reaction here was so harsh. I hope your day is going okay.
Perhaps I wasn’t clear. I meant have one app store and ignore those governments who want to ban apps.
Also, being able to directly load apps on your devices is way better anyway.
They shouldn’t cater to fascist mass murderers. Let the russian ppl be pissed pooty pants took away their apples
Apple pulled out of the country after the invasion of Ukraine, but they left the AppStore up for people with existing hardware. Since they have a walled garden, if they kill the AppStore, they would also be killing access to things that Russian dissenters and refugees would need access to.
