Apple has complied with the Chinese government’s request to remove several popular communication apps from its app store, including WhatsApp, Threads, Signal, and Telegram, due to national security concerns. This action was taken following a directive from the Cyberspace Administration of China. These apps have been crucial for political dissidents globally, especially in China where political expression is heavily regulated. Despite previous reliance on VPNs to access these platforms, they are now unavailable for download in China through the official app store. This move by Apple comes amidst increasing tensions between the U.S. and China in the realm of consumer technology, with discussions in the U.S. Senate about the future of TikTok, a popular social media app owned by a Chinese parent company

  • @dvdnet62
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    1030 days ago

    on IOS we can do that as well with trollstore and signalous/maplesign

    • @huginn@feddit.it
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      2330 days ago

      Aka if you void your warranty and crack your phone OS - something that Apple fights at every turn. If you run your phone in unsafe and unfriendly ways then you can do something Android supports natively by default.

      See! They’re totally the same guys! Buy iPhones 🤡

      • @Luvon@beehaw.org
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        1530 days ago

        🙄 sideloading alt store at least does not void your warranty.

        Software in general won’t void your hardware warranty. That’s ridiculous.

      • @B0rax@feddit.de
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        1030 days ago

        Those work on untouched iPhones. But you need to resign the apps every 7 days. (Which can be done automatically via the programs that person mentions)

        • @dvdnet62
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          930 days ago

          with trollstore and signalous/maplesign you don’t need to resign anymore. it is just normal phone without jailbreak same like Android

      • @dvdnet62
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        430 days ago

        wdym? I use those signing service without jailbreak, no weekly signing and everything works flawlessly like regular smartphone

    • Alex
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      328 days ago

      trollstore doesn’t work on every device and sigbalous and maplesign are payed.