Daring FireballOct 2, 2024
At the Behest of Russia, Apple Has Purged Nearly 100 VPN Apps From the App Store
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/10/02/russia-app-store-vpns
At the Behest of Russia, Apple Has Purged Nearly 100 VPN Apps From the App Store

Link to: https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/09/25/apple-removes-nearly-60-additional-vpns-from-its-russian-app-store-en-news

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Show threaddmitriidOct 2, 2024

@daringfireball

So, when Russia or China does something, then the rhetoric is immediately "oh, Apple can't just pull out" and, surprisingly, "it's valid criticism for AppStore as sole distribution method".

When it's EU news, the rhetoric is "AppStore isn't that profitable in the EU", "Apple should pull out of the EU" and "if you want an alternative store, go get Android".

Show threadDelric
@dmitriid @daringfireball can you quote us to where Gruber’s position was to pull out of the EU a rather than comply? Seems to me his position has been the same - they must comply when ordered to, but gosh aren’t these demands to make iOS an android clone dumb.
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Show threaddmitriidOct 2, 2024

@delric @daringfireball

https://daringfireball.net/2024/03/eu_share_of_apples_revenue and linked articles

And no one is demanding that Apple turn iPhone into Android

The EU’s Share of Apple’s Global Revenue

The DMA allows the EC to penalize “gatekeepers” with fines that are vastly disproportionate to the amount of revenue they generate in EU member states.

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Show threadEFELOct 3, 2024
@delric @dmitriid @daringfireball … and unlike in Russia, Apple is indeed withholding an important part of their experience from their EU-customers (who paid much more for their hardware than US-customers) instead of complying. Not the least because they want these customers to turn against such regulations. On the other hand, Apple was never truly global, there’s so much stuff limited to the US (financial services, News+, Wallet IDs… etc.)
Show threaddmitriidOct 3, 2024

@efel @delric @daringfireball

And they are using regulations as a useful scapegoat for their own failures on top of that: https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/113239045852374113