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A comment on Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store. Parent comment

Re:Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store by ryanjshaw on Thursday October 03, 2019 @05:47AM (#21145203)
Apple is a publically listed business operating a service (the app store). Their board and directors have a legal responsibility to comply with requests like this.
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Re:Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store by realusername on Thursday October 03, 2019 @05:49AM (#21145209)
Then maybe they should not operate the app store at all if it's incompatible with user choices. Or at least, leave the user a choice to just download an app elsewhere if they want to.

Clicking on a link and installing an app like you would do on windows seems the right thing to do.

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Re:Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store by brianpgordon on Thursday October 03, 2019 @02:20PM (#21150169)
How is that even relevant? The parent was specifically saying that you should be able to sideload apps so that even if an app was removed from the official store, you could still install it.
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