Tell HN: Max messenger app removed from App Store

8•secondary_op•18h ago

Apple has deplatformed the Max app from it's store.

Messenger app has over 100 million registered and 70 million daily active users.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_(app)

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dotcoma•18h ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_(app)

commie996•13h ago

I was wondering when Apple will stop operating in countries run by totalitarian surveillance regimes just for profit.

Selling its technology to those countries makes the company complicit in human rights abuses.

nunobrito•12h ago

By that definition you'd include most of the western world nowadays.

USA, Israel, UK are the worst offenders on that matter.

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