Apple reportedly cooperating with Russia to quietly remove VPN apps from App Store - 9to5Mac
Old Tim will steal a dollar from a dying child’s hand to make a good quarterly target.
Apple helping dictatorships, nice
A corporation pretending to be progressive? I’m shocked!
Corporations would commit genocide if that meant higher quarterly profit and good PR
when did apple store return to russia?
i thought apple shut off access to apple pay & app store in russia due to sanction?
Money versus ethics, as Apple always does = they toady to the Kremlin so they avoid losing their local business. Not sure if they direct sell to russians or if second parties import them. Maybe they decode for the CIA so they give a semblance of compliance?
Defenders of “privacy” in the west, defenders of Putin in the east
Well it’s simple to understand when you realise they are in the business of making money. That’s all they give a shit about.
Tim Apple is a scummy POS
Breaking News: corporations do what governments demand if the other choice is to leave the country.
I am as pro Ukraine as anyone, have friends from there but this is a biased headline, the correct headline should be: Apple follows the laws of the country it operates in. Want to argue apple shouldn’t in Russia, period? I agree. But as long as they do, they are bound by the laws of the country they operate in.
And it’s not just Russia, it’s every country they are in.
Keep that in mind when they shill you ‘privacy’ features the next time.
Of course, Apple loves walled gardens, no surprise here
Apple when the EU demands that they make their devices more open: REEEEE, YOU CAN’T DO THIS TO US!
Apple when dictatorships want to oppress their citizens: Say no more, I’ll get right on it.
Apple supports another dictatorship. It would be great if there would get sanctioned for such things, but that will never happen.
It’s illegal to be on a vpn in Russia in case you didn’t know.
I’ll take that rather than not having access to apple app store at all. They are to blame not for cooperating, but for keeping their devices in a walled garden.
If they were blocked or stopped offering app store you wouldn’t get ANY apps, pretty much, not just VPNs and the devices would be more or less bricks. Can’t blame apple for not wanting to show everyone their devices are at risk of turning into pumpkins at any moment. That would be terrible comparison to android phones where most apps work just fine in Russia since you aren’t relying on google store.
Apple only want one thing - $ and it doesn’t care how to get it or who to get it from - $ is $ is $
Corporations exist only to make a profit, everything else is coincidental
This should tell you that Apple is also secretly complying with whatever request the US gvt agencies make to them
Patreon subscriptions are going up $4.50/month on iPhone, because if you support an indie creator you must support the richest company in the world almost as much!