<story><title>Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store</title><url>https://twitter.com/DylanByers/status/1182133441267003392</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>And in one fell swoop, Apple has made it effectively impossible to install this app on your phone. There&amp;#x27;s no realistic workaround. †&lt;p&gt;Apple should never have been capable of making such a drastic decision for all of their customers. It&amp;#x27;s one thing to make determinations about what products are allowed in your store, but quite another to unilaterally ban software from what is many people&amp;#x27;s primary computer. We live in a digital age, and software is a form of free expression. We wouldn&amp;#x27;t find this acceptable with eBooks, and we should not find it acceptable for applications.&lt;p&gt;---&lt;p&gt;† Unrealistic workarounds include paying $100 per year for a developer account, reinstalling the app once every seven days, or finding a shady, stolen enterprise certificate. These are not real alternatives for 99% of people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>s_dev</author><text>&amp;gt;And in one fell swoop, Apple has made it effectively impossible to install this app on your phone. There&amp;#x27;s no realistic workaround.&lt;p&gt;Make the app a Web App and visit it in Safari.&lt;p&gt;Apple has banned it being notarized and distributed from their App Store but iPhones still have access to the conventional web which Apple has no control over.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store</title><url>https://twitter.com/DylanByers/status/1182133441267003392</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>And in one fell swoop, Apple has made it effectively impossible to install this app on your phone. There&amp;#x27;s no realistic workaround. †&lt;p&gt;Apple should never have been capable of making such a drastic decision for all of their customers. It&amp;#x27;s one thing to make determinations about what products are allowed in your store, but quite another to unilaterally ban software from what is many people&amp;#x27;s primary computer. We live in a digital age, and software is a form of free expression. We wouldn&amp;#x27;t find this acceptable with eBooks, and we should not find it acceptable for applications.&lt;p&gt;---&lt;p&gt;† Unrealistic workarounds include paying $100 per year for a developer account, reinstalling the app once every seven days, or finding a shady, stolen enterprise certificate. These are not real alternatives for 99% of people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>helpPeople</author><text>To be fair, Apple users consider it a benefit to not have control over their phones.&lt;p&gt;I know right? It&amp;#x27;s crazy people pay more money for less.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not sure how to teach Apple users, they seem to find an excuse for every anti-consumer thing they do.</text></comment>