Re:Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store
by Retric on Thursday October 03, 2019 @02:57PM
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That’s a scam: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k3ocqJ6_Nqw
Re:Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store
by danShumway on Thursday October 03, 2019 @04:25PM
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Very nice catch, thanks.
That being said, substitute out this program for something like Dolphin with the Wii, and I think the point still stands.
There are people working on circumventing cross-platform restrictions for just about every console out there, even in cases where the restrictions are technological and not just policy.
See https://pcsx4.com/compatibility/
The fact that consoles don't allow side-loading apps is a relatively common criticism of consoles, and one that hackers regularly try to fix. I'm grateful for that. I rather like being able to run emulators on my 3DS, or being able to back up save files from the Switch.
Of course, people don't get as upset about locked down consoles, because consoles are a superfluous entertainment device -- consoles don't really matter for anything. Phones are a lot closer to a laptop in functionality than they are to a console, and the effects of restricting software on a phone are more directly equivalent to restricting software on a computer than on a pure entertainment device.