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China forced Apple to remove any app where the developer isn't registered in China. Meaning they asked Apple to remove 95% of the apps and games available in the App Store.

Poor iPhone users, basically they will get a "wechat handheld" and that's it...

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[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

none of the apps I use regularly on my iPhone are available on Android.

Uh, yeah. That's the point. It wouldn't be Apple's walled garden if you could just access those apps outside of iOS! You're just used to that being the status quo...

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