Re:Apple removes 39,000 game apps from China store to meet d...
by devwastaken on Friday January 01, 2021 @05:07AM
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If maximum money is your only worth then your company has no standards - and therefore is untrustable to make good decisions towards consumers. Which explains google and apple pretty well.
Re:Apple removes 39,000 game apps from China store to meet d...
by rzz3 on Saturday January 02, 2021 @01:45AM
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If we give in to every demand of the Chinese government, things continue as they are. Those 1.4 billion people, hopefully, would demand the products being offered and policies would be (slowly) forced to change.
Re:Apple removes 39,000 game apps from China store to meet d...
by barnaclejive on Friday January 01, 2021 @02:59AM
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In what world do you think this it is OK not take action?
Set aside what ever you think about China
"The takedowns come amid a crackdown on unlicensed games by Chinese authorities."
unlicensed, plain and simple for ya there
Re:Apple removes 39,000 game apps from China store to meet d...
by throwbacktictac on Friday January 01, 2021 @07:26AM
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It doesn't seem like it a license to publish that's being controlled. It sounds more akin to a business license to collect money in app. The article alludes to ad supported games still being eligible for publication. This likely has something to do capital flight controls in China.
“However, this major pivot to only accepting paid games that have a game license, coupled with China’s extremely low number of foreign game licenses approved this year, will probably lead more game developers to switch to an ad-supported model for their Chinese versions,”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25591897
IMO the headline should be Apple censors 39,000 apps to comply with Chinese law.
I miss the days when major players in the game gave the middle finger and just let governments do the corrupt blocking.
We have no reason to believe that they will do anything other than attempt to maximize their share value.
If one company declines to do business, someone else will do it, and may end up with market power.
We can’t solve this problem by expecting individual companies to sacrifice themselves.
Even if they did, it wouldn’t solve the problem because it would open the door to even worse companies taking their position.
The only solution is at the political level.
“However, this major pivot to only accepting paid games that have a game license, coupled with China’s extremely low number of foreign game licenses approved this year, will probably lead more game developers to switch to an ad-supported model for their Chinese versions,”