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Apple has removed major VPN apps from its mainland China app store:
China appears to have received help on Saturday from an unlikely source in its fight against tools that help users evade its Great Firewall of internet censorship: Apple. Software made by foreign companies to help users skirt the country's system of internet filters has vanished from Apple's app store on the mainland.
One company, ExpressVPN, posted a letter it had received from Apple saying that its app had been taken down "because it includes content that is illegal in China." Another tweeted from its official account that its app had been removed.
[...] In a statement, Apple noted that the Chinese government announced this year that all developers offering VPNs needed to obtain a government license. "We have been required to remove some VPN apps in China that do not meet the new regulations," the company said. "These apps remain available in all other markets where they do business."
Also at TechCrunch, CNET, Newsweek, and TorrentFreak.
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Monday July 31 2017, @01:29PM (1 child)
This is one of the reasons why supporting iOS is a bad idea. If Apple (or someone they agree or comply with) decides you can't install something, you have no recourse. They've done it for educational software, they've done it for frikkin' magazines relating to competing platforms. Saying "I can install everything *I* need" is very much like "first they came for the trade-unionists". Apple have made this degree of control on what should be a general computing platform acceptable.
I really wish people would have a little long term vision and stop supporting this. The damage they've done is huge. Microsoft is now of course trying the same thing. Won't that be wonderful.
Add on top of that limiting yourself to a platform with precisely one source for hardware and one source for software seems to be an exceptionally stupid thing to do.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday July 31 2017, @07:55PM
I can get work whose deliverable runs on an Apple Platform.
I advertise Linux and Windows expertise too, but no one ever offers me any such work.
Not getting any work at all led me to being homeless. Now I'm paying my own rent.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]