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Re:We launched an app with $500k annual revenue, and then Ap... by xrd on Monday June 17, 2019 @04:51PM (#20207247)
So, I'm unclear what happened here. They were exploiting a hole in the VPN setting of iOS? If it was a bad-actor VPN, then I support Apple doing what they did. If it was Apple not liking the business model of a VPN that competes with their own new OS-core functionality, then that's another black mark on the AppStore model. This company seems to be asserting the latter, no? Are they twisting the facts?
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Re:We launched an app with $500k annual revenue, and then Ap... by scarface74 on Monday June 17, 2019 @04:57PM (#20207303)
Apple isn’t making money off of their implementation. If the company wanted to sell a “VPN” service outside of the App Store, they could do that and just tell the user how to set it up.

Why would you want a third party to control your device?

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