It's interesting to me that this is regarded as anything short of Apple engaging in state-mandated censorship.
IMO the headline should be Apple censors 39,000 apps to comply with Chinese law.
IMO the headline should be Apple censors 39,000 apps to comply with Chinese law.
I miss the days when major players in the game gave the middle finger and just let governments do the corrupt blocking.
We have no reason to believe that they will do anything other than attempt to maximize their share value.
If one company declines to do business, someone else will do it, and may end up with market power.
We can’t solve this problem by expecting individual companies to sacrifice themselves.
Even if they did, it wouldn’t solve the problem because it would open the door to even worse companies taking their position.
The only solution is at the political level.
“However, this major pivot to only accepting paid games that have a game license, coupled with China’s extremely low number of foreign game licenses approved this year, will probably lead more game developers to switch to an ad-supported model for their Chinese versions,”