Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store

Re:Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store by enriquto on Thursday October 03, 2019 @10:29AM (#21147376)

> Not likening the reasoning does not remove the limitation. But it’s vastly more widespread than that. Just try to load some of that realtime software running inside your car on a desktop it’s simply not designed for it.

This is a bogus argument for the case of the safety app. There is people who wrote a functioning program designed specifically for the iphone, that other people were already using on their phones. Then apple, a third party, removed the right of people to continue sharing a correctly functioning program on their own devices. The iphone is clearly designed to run arbitrary software and it already did in this case, before apple's callous interference.

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Re:Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store by Retric on Thursday October 03, 2019 @10:35AM (#21147460)

I edited in Red Dead Redemption as a non exclusive (PC/XBox) example that’s not available for PC.

As to the safety app, that’s the kind of thing I would like to play with. You may or may not actually be able to emulate that stuff on PC hardware, but not all of it, more critically however your not getting the license for it.

PS: The removal of software is an argument about execution not the idea of a restrictive platform. The gatekeeper will prevent some software running on the platform that’s the basic idea, removing previously approved software is a separate question.

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