How are they handling this? Would a VPN get you around it or is it based on where the service subscription is based?
5 eyes spy network countries. No surprise there.
Could enabling a VPN spoof apple to think your in a based country?
They probably use your fucking GPS location to determine where you are for this. And that's more difficult than just using a VPN.
Hell the phone knows your carrier from the SIM in it. It's not like you can VPN your way outta that.
It’s possible, but I wouldn’t put it past Apple to ignore the VPN when checking your location. I’d suspect they’d check using more than 1 approach (Internet, GPS, country on your Apple account, etc) to verify your location.
Switch to android?
good to see an alternative-frontends enjoyer.
There is absolutely no correlation between profitability and countries forbidding sideloading.
Correlation with successful lobbying efforts on our part? Maybe. ~ Apple 🍏
Time to get a Brentrace, I guess.
Honestly it could be that developing and maintaining these region-locked differences in OS might be more expensive than saving every last penny from not allowing piracy (which is the real deal for this fuss).
Big majority of android users don't sideload either, most people are so technically illiterate they don't really grasp the idea of an App Store overall, it's just a place for them the get an Instagram button on a new device
Thanks Nigel
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