Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store

Re:Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store by jfim on Thursday October 03, 2019 @01:50PM (#21149773)

Can you elaborate on that? Many Android phones can have their bootloader unlocked, allow installing alternate operating systems, have alternate app stores, and allow sideloading of applications.

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Re:Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store by mrguyorama on Thursday October 03, 2019 @01:58PM (#21149865)

100% of that is optional and entirely unused by most people, excepting maybe a single side-loaded app if they actually care about certain things.

This is of course scoped to here in the US, where most of the time Android phones have their OS entirely locked down apart from sideloading apps, ie no running different ROMs, upgrading out of what you're allowed by the network, rooting, running super user apps, etc

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Re:Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store by fivefive55 on Thursday October 03, 2019 @01:58PM (#21149863)

Can being the keyword. None of that is even close to required. You have the option to tinker, you aren't required to.

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