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Re:“It’s time for Apple to fix texting” by username190 on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @10:13PM (#32407170)
> If Apple were censoring messaging apps I would agree with your seemingly negative sentiment, however, as someone who has pushed out apps to the Apple and Mac app stores, I can say they absolutely do not do that.

Perhaps not in your country, but they've certainly done it before - censoring Telegram in both Russia[0] and Iran[1], for example.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/technology/telegram-apple... [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/world/middleeast/iran-tel...

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Re:“It’s time for Apple to fix texting” by sbuk on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @01:10AM (#32408022)
What’s to stop governments banning RCS?
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Re:“It’s time for Apple to fix texting” by smoldesu on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @10:23AM (#32412481)
The fact that more secure alternatives are freely available, and by sabotaging SMS/iMessage they would be losing their wiretap on the nation's text messages?
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Re:“It’s time for Apple to fix texting” by imbnwa on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @12:17AM (#32407811)
Are you really suggesting governments requiring those apps be banned from distribution in their jurisdictions shares the context of the post you're replying to?
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Re:“It’s time for Apple to fix texting” by d-lowl on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @09:55AM (#32411988)
Yes. As for some other mobile OSs I'm not required to comply with whatever is on their official store, and can just install an app from a different source.
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