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Re:I've never felt less in control of my own hardware by ryandrake on Friday February 16, 2018 @01:08PM (#16394333)
You didn't mention the phone OS, but ... It's been a while since I was a 3rd party iOS developer, but I thought at one time having a "time bomb" or anything else that causes the app to basically do nothing is in violation of Apple's AppStore rules and would cause the app to get removed from the store.
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Re:I've never felt less in control of my own hardware by izacus on Friday February 16, 2018 @02:36PM (#16395278)
That just happened on Skype installed on my iPad 2. So it's certanly not against AppStore rules.
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Re:I've never felt less in control of my own hardware by jimmies on Friday February 16, 2018 @01:29PM (#16394545)
It was Android. I don't exactly remember the message, but it was a forced update message from the app. Maybe it didn't tell me that I haven't updated the app in a month, but it refused to let me do anything without updating.
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