I’m from space!
After reading the article, it doesn’t look like any of this contradicts what they’re been selling. Encrypted data is still locked down. IMHO, this title is fairly clickbaity.
A lot of this looks like iOS / CarPlay versions of policing / public records database software that was previously on platforms like Windows.
This title seems kind of clickbaity. Most of the native apps are for querying existing government and police databases. We’re talking about accessing records via CarPlay, as opposed to using a bulky Window’s laptop docked in a center console.
Apple is still not offering governments a backdoor into encrypted content.
This probably can’t be great news for Chinese-owned Volvo.
Venn diagram right:
Me in 1996 when Metallica plays a surprise free concert in a Tower Records parking lot and the boys are trying to spread the word.
Venn diagram left:
Hezbollah in Lebanon
Venn diagram overlap:
“Damn, my pager is blowing up!”
Is that a delivery service’s marked up price? Their site has them for much less.
The Marriotts are mormon.
So maybe a hot chocolate.
I’m beginning to think that guy might be kind of a dick.
There is Portlandia weird, and then there’s “I want the government to track your menstrual cycles” weird.
If you’re interested in supporting Vance, Ashley Furniture gift cards are preferred.
If dude took 2 seconds too google “Beryl name,” he’d see that it has historically been a woman’s name.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When the lasagna music kicks in
What if it’s just a 20oz cup of deli mustard from the condiment bar?
Can you update your post and swap in the mastodon link? https://mastodon.social/@ashleygjovik/112668309100333232
X sucks.
This isn’t the only country that’s an example of this.
Stupid sexy crack head