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Apple Reportedly Cuts Over 700 Apps from Chinese App Store (cnet.com)
Apple has reportedly removed 718 apps from the Chinese App Store in the last few days. From a report: The iPhone maker swept out the apps because their developers pushed updates without its permission, The Telegraph reported, citing local reports. Apple warned developers against updating iOS apps without its permission in early 2017. The banned apps included Sogou's search engine and maps, online retailer Pinduodo and car sharing service Togo Car.
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Or not, depending on Xi Jinping's mood that day.
In China yes it seems so. I expect the Government wants to validate that your code changes "Support the public well being"
Just like with Google, Apple if it wants to do business in China it will need to follow its laws.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
How does public well being in China benefit *me*, and why should my software further this goal?
If anything, I want to *disrupt* the social order, not reinforce it.
You need permission to update your OWN software
The funny thing is, you are exactly backwards.
Read the summary again. The problem was that with Apple's system you DON'T need permission to update your own software.
But in China, the developers were supposed to get such permission, did not, and updated anyway...
So the problem apparently is Apple's system is too free for China. :-)
I had no idea they needed to do that in China, no such requirement anywhere else - we just drop an update, Apple reviews it, and a few hours later it can be in the store.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Then stay in America. Unless you are brave enough to suffer imprisonment and public shaming in China.
The real question seems to come down to. Where is the line of a law and rule that you disagree with and follow anyways to something that is morally so wrong that it is worth taking the consequences and fighting.
For profit companies, are not known for their morals. If given the options follow the rules you don't like, or do not do business in the world largest population market. The for Profit Companies will be little debate, just follow the rules so they can have the market.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Then stay in America. Unless you are brave enough to suffer imprisonment
The incarceration rate in America is four times that of China.
Huh? I don't get it. ALL app submissions and updates have to be reviewed and approved by Apple.
Is there an additional step required in the Chinese store, to ask permission before submitting the update for review?
Yes, but it isn't for speaking up against the government.
I never implied that America doesn't have its problems, A lot of this highest incarceration rate in the US is based on a Puritan heritage, and the English Idea of law. Where a Law that says don't do that and you do it then you are breaking a law and needs to be punished. Vs other areas of the world where the laws are mainly guidelines on what you should do to help maintain proper order. However if you don't follow the written law the context on why you didn't is taken into account.
The age old example.
You do not drive past a Red Light. In the United States, at 2:00am and there is no traffic possible you will stop your car at that red light, until it turns green. Because if you run that red light, and there was a traffic cop hiding catches you, you will get a ticket that you will not be able win.
In other countries because it is safe to drive past that red light, even if there was a police who saw you, they will not bother with the ticket, because what you were doing had no danger. But if the traffic was busy you may get in trouble.
When speaking up against a country, the English Law US, has laws stating that it is permissible. While other countries without that law, and they feel threatened by it, will use the endangering society excuse to get you in trouble.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Try "Make sure the app doesn't download bitcoin miner/spyware"
The fact that it's China isn't really relevant other than some government overreach that would be unthinkable in the rest of the world. But keep in mind you can't download porn apps in the first place, so the kind of overreach is more along the lines of "app is unauthorized gambling" eg shitty microtransaction games.
It seems that Apple is protecting its brand and its customers.
A secure platform (Apple does money, yes it does) has a lot of reasons
to managed the stuff folk install and when.
Consider zero day exploits. What if a "dark web" exploit is picked up and
is quickly instantiated by an application and pushed to all of a market before
Apple can update iOS. It may be a known bug to Apple... just not yet patched.
There are a number of attacks. The most common successful attacks involve
code that can be run locally on the hardware i.e. an application. It only takes one
bitcoin miner on worse in a pile of 100 applications to put the 100 on the side burner.
I expect to see more and more of this control/management of walled gardens.
On the money side iPay, iTunes, banking applications and then there is privacy.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. Mark Twain.
A lot of this highest incarceration rate in the US is based on a Puritan heritage
The Puritan heritage was strongest in New England, where incarceration rates are the lowest in the country.
and the English Idea of law.
The state with the highest incarceration rate is Louisiana, which was settled by French Catholics, and is the only state that does NOT use English common law. Louisiana's state and local laws are based on the French Napoleonic Code.
Do you know where the use of English law is most pervasive? England. Where the incarceration rate is a 1/5th the American rate.
You need permission to update your OWN software
No, you need permission to push your updates to OTHER USER'S devices. You can update your own software without issue.
If a user wants automatic updates, they can receive your update automatically. If a user doesn't want automatic updates, you shouldn't be pushing something to their device. If you are, that's a problem, and it's what Apple is addressing here.
Slurp it good!
Bullshit. They just don't report most of the heinous shit they pull. Just try to tell us the Uighur situation is at all remotely comparable to anything the US does.
What China is doing is just a tiny moral fraction away from nazi death camps, but I guess it's ok because they're asian Muslims instead of Jews.
THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES FOR YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY NAZI FAGGOT KEN DOLL
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING. Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
You are comparing England to America.
We have STATES, that are of comparable size.
Way to be dishonest there bill, as usual.
You are wrong. This is about China who wants to make sure they vet everything.
It has nothing to do with automatic updates.
We need to brutally murder the Chinese savages so they understand what betas they truly are, correct. Sell them Trump, label it ham.
Then stay in America. Unless you are brave enough to suffer imprisonment
The incarceration rate in America is four times that of China.
You mean the incarceration rate as reported by the Chinese government? Sounds very trustworthy.