The iPhone App Store in China is about to be more locked down.

China forced Apple to remove any app where the developer isn’t registered in China. Meaning they asked Apple to remove 95% of the apps and games available in the App Store.

Poor iPhone users, basically they will get a “wechat handheld” and that’s it…

  • Justin@lemmy.jlh.name
    17·
    1 year ago

    This seems big. IPhones seem like they are kinda the main western luxury and status symbol in China. Now they’re not really any better than Android phones in terms of apps and being able to bypass the firewall.

    • Crotaro@beehaw.org
      7·
      1 year ago

      Now they’re not really any better than Android phones in terms of apps and being able to bypass the firewall.

      I don’t know about the Android capabilities in China but this move makes it seem to me that IPhone has now almost become a paperweight with in-built clock, messaging/phoning and heavily restricted browser.