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Is Apple store working in Iran? For example, Apple store is working in Russia. I genuinely do not understand how logic works between 1.sanctions 2... 3.let's b

by betaby 2y ago

Is Apple store working in Iran? For example, Apple store is working in Russia. I genuinely do not understand how logic works between 1.sanctions 2... 3.let's ban some IPs. What is the chain of reasoning happens on step 2? Why this is not applicable to Google/Apple? There are definitely sanctions against Russia, yet Apple/Play stores work just fine.

grishka 2y ago
> For example, Apple store is working in Russia. Apple hasn't officially sold any hardware in Russia in the last 2+ years. Any Apple devices you can buy come from "parallel import" and are priced 1.5x compared to other countries. As far as I know, the only way you can pay on the app store is from your prepaid balance at some carriers. Play store doesn't accept payments at all, it pops up a modal saying "payments in Russia are paused". I can't understand what these sanctions are intended to achieve either. They just make us angrier because there's nothing we can do besides wait it out.
- sam_lowry_ 2y ago
  > They just make us angrier because there's nothing we can do besides wait it out. You are not angry enough. Get angrier, go out, kill the highest sitting official you can get your hands on, then be beaten, jailed, signed up to war where you will die and receive a posthumous medal?
  - sam_lowry_ 2y ago
    Correction: Get angrier, go out, kill the highest sitting official you can get your hands on, then be beaten, jailed, signed up to war where you will detract to the Ukrainian side, fight gloriously and be the first ever Ukrainian solder to enter Moscow, inscribing you name in the annals of Victory next to Julius Caesar.
TiredOfLife 2y ago
Not only is Apple store working in Russia. Apple, who supposedly has stopped selling hardware there, works closely with russian government to remove apps like VPNs from the store.
- betaby 2y ago
  So how that works? The same sanctions: - CloudFlare - block IPs ( why? what part of sanctions says that ) - Apple / Google - do nothing I genuinely want to know.

by betaby 2y ago

grishka 2y ago

> For example, Apple store is working in Russia. Apple hasn't officially sold any hardware in Russia in the last 2+ years. Any Apple devices you can buy come from "parallel import" and are priced 1.5x compared to other countries. As far as I know, the only way you can pay on the app store is from your prepaid balance at some carriers. Play store doesn't accept payments at all, it pops up a modal saying "payments in Russia are paused". I can't understand what these sanctions are intended to achieve either. They just make us angrier because there's nothing we can do besides wait it out.

sam_lowry_ 2y ago
> They just make us angrier because there's nothing we can do besides wait it out. You are not angry enough. Get angrier, go out, kill the highest sitting official you can get your hands on, then be beaten, jailed, signed up to war where you will die and receive a posthumous medal?
- sam_lowry_ 2y ago
  Correction: Get angrier, go out, kill the highest sitting official you can get your hands on, then be beaten, jailed, signed up to war where you will detract to the Ukrainian side, fight gloriously and be the first ever Ukrainian solder to enter Moscow, inscribing you name in the annals of Victory next to Julius Caesar.

TiredOfLife 2y ago

Not only is Apple store working in Russia. Apple, who supposedly has stopped selling hardware there, works closely with russian government to remove apps like VPNs from the store.

betaby 2y ago
So how that works? The same sanctions: - CloudFlare - block IPs ( why? what part of sanctions says that ) - Apple / Google - do nothing I genuinely want to know.