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Apple pulls iPhone torrent app from AltStore PAL in Europe (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 month ago by lemmydev2 to c/pulse_of_truth

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Apple has removed the iPhone torrenting client, iTorrent, from AltStore PAL’s alternative iOS marketplace in the EU, showing that it can still exert control over apps that aren’t listed on the official App Store. iTorrent developer Daniil Vinogradov told TorrentFreak that Apple has revoked his distribution rights to publish apps in any alternative iOS stores, […]

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[–] awaysaway@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

could you expand on this? what optimistic implication do you see?

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

The EU has been putting pressure on Apple for a while, the only reason alternative app stores exist at all. If Apple hinders that too much, EU will force apple to change.