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Apple is locking down the iPhone App Store to comply with a new law in China
(www.theverge.com)
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this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2023
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What's stopping China from saying - "if you want to sell iPhones in China, disable sideloading"?
Nothing. The point is first, they shouldn't be able to do it for devices already sold.
Second, Apple is the one developing technologies to make phones jails even without goverment looking. If Apple hadn't done it for past years and China would force them now, then still next couple of generations of devices would be trivial to jailbrake, beacuse those locks won't be as mature.
Makes sense.
The only thing stopping them is their own incompetency. Truly a thin wall, but as their older generations start dying off we'll see that wall broken down.
We wish, but we expect the younger generations would be the same if not more strict (think Kim).