• 鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.works
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    24 minutes ago

    You can already see an example somewhere…:

    iPhone, iOS, China, Great Firewall, VPN Apps. (VPN apps can’t be found in China’s version of the Apple App Store) And of course, it’s iOS, it already doesn’t have “sideloading”.

    Westerners pay attention, because that’s the future we’re getting. The Splinternet and the end of Freedom.

  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    App stores are the worst thing to happen to phone tech. Back in the Nokia days there were no restrictions on installing any app you want as there were no official app stores and that’s how it should be, imagine if Microsoft made it impossible to install apps outside of its windows app store, no would accept that, so why do we accept it for mobiles OS’s