Apple removes Max messenger App Store removal signals growing pressure on Russian state-backed messenger apps.
  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    15 天前

    Obviously well-motivated in this case, but it’s still intolerable for any company to restrict what software you can install. If removal from one store means total censorship, that store’s petit monopoly needs to be shattered.

    It’s not their platform. It’s your phone. That’s what the money is for.

    • LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyzOP
      31·
      15 天前

      I just looked up how sideloading apps work on iOS to see how it compares to Android, and damn Apple really wants to prevent it.

      • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        15 天前

        how sideloading apps work on iOS

        Short answer being ‘it doesn’t.’

        And now Android is inching toward the same abusive restrictions, because we didn’t chop Apple in half the moment they pulled that shit. It is genuinely one of the worst events in the history of computer and I am counting the death of Turing.