@dangillmor The makers of the app should put up a normal website available for all, as well as making an android app, that can be sideloaded by android-users.

@dangillmor I'm glad I ditched Apple for the second (and now last time). That said I see Google's putting more pressure on sideloading with Android so at some point we're going to have to retreat to Google-less Android or Linux phones.

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This is what happens when you make an app for an ecosystem based on a walled garden.

If it were an open source web app, Apple actions would be irrelevant.

@dangillmor meanwhile "Protect USA" is still a available to help target employees for political speech.

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#boycott Apple

This is just one in a long history of let's fuck people over because we're at the long end of a very long stick and we're untouchable.

#fuckapple

@dangillmor And yet, they are still the least fash of tech companies.

@dangillmor Just what you would expect. Spineless a*holes, and don't give a f*ck about their customers. Nothing new!

@dangillmor it's not cowardice. It's agreement with Trump's bigotry & hatred. Like Scott Bessent, Tim Cook is a gay white man who supports rampant homophobes out of shared white supremacism.

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Interesting that after all this time only now is Google/Alphabet deciding to remove "unverified" side loading from Android.

I'm sure it's just a coincidence of course 🙃

@dangillmor it’s not cowardice, it’s capitalism. Stop expecting corporations to act morally, their duty by design is to the shareholders.

We need this energy to be focused into libre software and hardware instead

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Bending knee is not a way to be free…

@dangillmor a great reminder that the iPhone 17 one just bought doesn’t belong to them, and isn’t for their best interests.

@dangillmor Cowardice, or just who they are? If they'll work with the PRC, they'll work with a fascist US government. They probably don't even have mixed feelings about it.

@dangillmor and this toot was right underneath this one.

@dangillmor Ha. I’m genuinely disappointed at people expecting business giants to NOT fold. History shows they always fold, as they have most to gain from it.

@dangillmor i'm sure i'm not the only one to say this, but this here is exactly why forcing people to only use one app store is awful.

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Yup, Apple caves to the fascists. Just like when they killed Airdrop in China a few years back because kids were using it to share protest information.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/apple-airdrop-china-ios/

#apple #Fascism #cowards #ice

@dangillmor Apple is just doing what they usually do in order to do business in a totalitarian country. The main difference is that the totalitarian country is the USA.