You guys like censorship in the US SO SUCK IT UP
The censorship is not applied in the US.
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Apple Removes 39,000 Games From China App Store
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The censorship is not applied in the US.
Well said. Having an app or not will also not reduce the amount of perverts in existence.
No, this would change absolutely nothing, as all platforms including japanese game consoles and their stores are subjected to this. Even if another store was allowed on iOS, it would be forced to comply by Chinese Gov like everyone else.
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Just another reason why users should be allowed to download their apps to a computer.
Holy hell. Please tell me you’re kidding. This is such an American point of view it’s disgusting.
Wow. Honestly any point can easily be made without requiring such an example. Your choice of words / subject matter is frankly in poor taste. Please try another comparison.
I'm sure a 'game developer' is going to cause damage to a behemoth communist nation. Issues like this are a major headache I'm sure for many corporations, Apple included. How to 'deal with China' is going to be a huge issue for decades. It would seem that giving them our manufacturing capability to kill labor unions perhaps wasn't the best idea in the long term. Doing that hurt workers in this country, and gave China a vastly increased standing in the world.
'We' aided annd abetted the monster that China has become. (Yes, that is an extra 'n' from the MBP flaky keyboard. I left it in. I wonder how often it happens)
Just another reason why users should be allowed to download their apps to a computer.
This isn't a full "removal" as such - just a removal from sale. I can still re-download games that I've purchased in the past and are no longer on the store... so it's not really a reason in this case.
If it starts raining turds in are you going to get out an umbrella or insist that your view of the sky should be unobstructed in all circumstances? LOL
I agree that no authority should have autonomous power to intervene and obstruct the sharing of information. But governments administered by elected officials generally represent the will of the people. If the majority of those people wish for a paved road then they will have it. The minority that may object to the road for any number of reasons cannot always rely on some philosophical principal to protect their interests.
But all that bs aside. China is a complex market and I won’t begin to claim I know how to navigate or solve it.
I mean technically you can already side-load any app code you want. So nothing to really stop those from being distributed anyways. Allowing legitimate apps through a third party store/source is a bit different.
Will I lose any social ranking points if I study the comments of regime critics on the MR forums?
goes to show how much worthless cruft is choking up the App Store. I bet those 39,000 apps that were yanked won't be missed by anyone — including the developers
The flip side of that is pirated software runs rampant in China. I had a shareware program back in the early 2000s. Not expensive at $49. It checked back to see if updates were available but did not check back to see if it was pirated. I could see from the server logs where the checks were coming from and knew from my sales info where the registered users were located. Bottom line is that I had registered users in most every country with the biggest exception being China though a significant portion of update checks were from China. Piracy runs rampant in China.
I tried to register my game with the Chinese authority, but their website and all forms and info were in Chinese...
So I just left it for later and forgot about it.
I may try again, perhaps they now have the information in English.
So I just left it for later and forgot about it.
I may try again, perhaps they now have the information in English.
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You seem to agree with me. We should focus on improving lives of 99.99% of people and not worry too much about that troublesome individual.
We should build that road that helps nearly everyone and not worry about the single objecting landowner. Similarly, the internet should be open and free - it's like a road. Putting barriers up on the internet would be like installing a toll booth just for when you cross that single person's land - way too much effort is going into something that makes it worse for everyone just to deal with that single person who can be dealt with in other, less intrusive ways.
The issue with cp is the exploitation and abuse of children - trying to shut down the distribution of the media showing it is totally missing the point. Honestly, allowing that distribution is probably a net good thing. It's evidence that police can use to find and stop future exploitation/abuse.