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Great for waking people up to a centralized authority that acts without warning. Great for deepening the divide between people & countries.
by nonameking2026 4y ago
Great for waking people up to a centralized authority that acts without warning.
Great for deepening the divide between people & countries.
- seydor 4y ago> waking people up to a centralized authority i think people are asking for it
- fsflover 4y agoAny references?
- seydor 4y agohttps://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Building_a_Trusted_Ecosystem_for_Millions_of_Apps.pdf https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Building_a_Trusted_Ecosys... https://www.dw.com/en/apple-ceo-tim-cook-rejects-app-store-monopoly-claims/a-57627362 https://www.dw.com/en/apple-ceo-tim-cook-rejects-app-store-m... https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/app-store-would-be-toxic-mess-without-control-apple-ceo-tim-cook/articleshow/82851350.cms?from=mdr https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/app-sto...
- watwut 4y ago[flagged]
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- AlexandrB 4y agoMy impression is that both services are widely used in "Slavic" countries, not just Russia. In particular, my relatives in Ukraine use both mail.ru and VK. I wonder if this will trigger a move to equivalent American services, like Facebook or Gmail, for some.
- sab24 4y agoIt seems to force iPhone users to switch from Russian services to services from the United States, which provides a certain finanical benefit for the United States.
- mrleblanc101 4y agoThis is a UK sanction, this has nothing to do with the US. Apple simply terminated the developer account which removed the app in every country.
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoUsing the word "Slavic" is wrong here. You probably meant ex-USSR countries. PL, CZ, SK are also as slavic as it gets but nobody here uses VK.
- mrleblanc101 4y agoUkrainians using web services from Russian-based company, this seems like a bad idea
- newtritious 4y ago
- 9999px 4y ago
- KptMarchewa 4y agoWell, they've bothered to false flag a bit.
- pessimizer 4y agoWith their insidious plan to put an anti-Russian military alliance on their borders. You obviously understand the depths of Putin's genius. He's playing the long game.
- bpodgursky 4y agoThis argument is dumb because Estonia and Latvia are already on their border. There's nothing NATO can do with Ukraine they couldn't already do with the Baltics.
- seba_dos1 4y agoIt's more than dumb. Russia's current actions are actually only now making NATO presence in the region tangibly stronger (see: Sweden, Finland). This wouldn't happen without Putin invading Ukraine.
- monocasa 4y agoThe difference is whether or not you're on the open plains leading to Moscow. The eastern edge of the Carpathian Mountains has always been a hard line for Russia, going back to the middle ages, because once the plain to Moscow opens up, it's nearly indefensible. That edge is in eastern Ukraine. It's a very 19th/20th century view on 21st century geopolitics, but hey, that's modern Russia for you.
- ImprobableTruth 4y agoYeah, I think this unfortunately heralds the end for the international internet. If you're not a core US ally, being heavily dependent on US services is now a risk, so I imagine we'll see a wave of states moving to develop their own like China did.
- kube-system 4y agoThis is the end of the international internet? 20-25% of internet users have been behind behind a firewall for decades that cuts them off from huge parts of the internet. The internationality of the internet has always been inversely proportional to its accessibility to the masses.
- im3w1l 4y agoDeveloping your own might be too expensive. I think it could happen that the internet will divide like IRL, roughly into blocks.
- marginalia_nu 4y ago> Great for waking people up to a centralized authority that acts without warning. Genuinely uncertain if this refers to Apple or the kremlin.
- capableweb 4y agoSuitably applies to both.
- watwut 4y agoGotta love how my accurate characterization of causes of current dived comment was flagged. Russia is divided away from rest, because of Genocide and nuclear threats. Russia acts that way because of their own ideologies, history and feeling of entitlement. The app store apps removal is very minor and does very little to further already existing divide.