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The app was reinstated: > Following the outcry, Apple decided to admit the HKmap.live app to the App Store yesterday, where it is now available to download. Th
by faitswulff 7y ago
The app was reinstated:
> Following the outcry, Apple decided to admit the HKmap.live app to the App Store yesterday, where it is now available to download. The app developers were happy with this outcome, saying that they believed the decision was more of a bureaucratic issue rather than a political decision and writing, “We understand @Apple have many business considerations, but since they already make thing right I don’t see any point to keep pressing.”
Source: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/apple-hk-protest-map/ https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/apple-hk-protest-map...
- klagermkii 7y agoYes, but now it's pulled again. The link you have is from October 6th.
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoThis is a follow-on to that, it's been removed again.
- faitswulff 7y agoAh, thanks. And very disappointing.
- ptconroy 7y agoIt was re-removed: It was Apple’s second reversal on HKmap.live, which it initially rejected and then allowed to appear on its App Store. The latest about-face came after the People’s Daily, the Chinese Communist Party’s official newspaper, said in a blog post this week that the app had “betrayed the feelings of the Chinese people.” The article accused the app’s anonymous developer of harboring malicious motives and queried whether Apple was an accomplice of “rioters.” Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/apple-pulls-police-tracking-app-used-by-hong-kong-protesters/2019/10/10/4aad5ebe-eb14-11e9-a329-7378fbfa1b63_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/apple-pull...