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I’m guessing you haven’t seen Trump’s executive order targeting WeChat ‘transactions’? Tencent and Chinese companies would benefit from being allowed to operat
by abc-xyz 6y ago
I’m guessing you haven’t seen Trump’s executive order targeting WeChat ‘transactions’?
Tencent and Chinese companies would benefit from being allowed to operate their own app stores or side load apps, which would allow them to significantly reduce the impact of Trump’s current and future actions.
- cat199 6y ago> reduce the impact of Trump’s current and future actions. why would separate app stores limit government jurisdiction?
- abc-xyz 6y agoYou can see how much harder it is to ban an app on Android compared to iOS since anyone can install an apk they download from a random website (or from a third-party App Store). Whereas now, if the government tell Apple to remove an app from their App Store worldwide then it’s pretty much impossible for anyone to download it. In the past I don’t think the CCP minded - in fact, they were probably happy about it since it made it much easier to censor apps they didn’t like. Whereas now they’re freaking out since they risk having all their apps blocked from all Apple devices worldwide.
- sudosysgen 6y agoChinese companies already have amazing China only phones, like the new Xiaomi, which operate their own app stores. They don't need anything from Apple