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Apple is locking down the iPhone App Store to comply with a new law in China (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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China forced Apple to remove any app where the developer isn't registered in China. Meaning they asked Apple to remove 95% of the apps and games available in the App Store.

Poor iPhone users, basically they will get a "wechat handheld" and that's it...

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apple makes the situation worse, by having an exclusive app store, and not allowing people to load apps directly. Without a developer key, having to renew every week, etc it's effectively not allowing.

F Droid is currently accessible from China, I believe. Even if it isn't, you can share Android apps via Bluetooth, nearby. It's a far more partitionable and repairable situation with f Droid then with the Apple store.

So if iOS allows other app stores access, then that will give people more options inside of China

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The number of stores are irrelevant, not sure how you keep missing this. And I’m not sure why you think just because you have more stores, it will somehow circumvent the new law.

If you add 3 more App Stores, the outcome will be most apps will be sold in all of them, I mean why wouldn’t you want your product in as many stores as possible? Again, not sure why you think more stores means anything or can be used to circumvent Chinese laws.

And China won’t forget about F Droid. If they want devs registered, then it’s going to hit their nation, not a specific company. They will all be brought under the new rule. One store, hundred stores, google, Apple, whomever.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The stores aren't relevant, the operating system allowing apps to run that aren't signed by an Apple certificate is the important thing