The driving force behind RCS on the iPhone might be new rules that regulators in China are implementing. Apple unexpectedly announced...
  • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    9 months ago

    Wonder if they will comply in the same way as complying in the EU with alternate app stores / sideloading being region locked?

    • 2xsaiko
      2·
      9 months ago

      I think it’s already confirmed it will be available globally.

      (Wish they implemented region locking for China’s other demand though, that is making AirDrop for everyone limited to 10 minutes)

            • 2xsaiko
              5·
              9 months ago

              Yeah, that’s what I mean. It used to be unlimited until China complained that people were using it to mass spread anti-CCP messages. Or so I’ve read, anyway.

        • 2xsaiko
          1·
          9 months ago

          Ah oops. My bad. I guess I thought so because they didn’t say anything about region locking it, but I don’t think they did for the App Store stuff initially either.