• Aatube@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    Wow, that’d be a really cool name for bureaucracy if it applied here!

    however, it has been hard to distinguish between the exploitation of pre-existing divisions by opponents, and the deliberate creation or strengthening of these divisions implied by “divide and rule”.

    In this case, it’s “the exploitation of pre-existing divisions”. It’s not like Apple lobbied for “the European nation” to be split.

    I’m pretty sure it was also for compliance with local laws.

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      10 months ago

      I’m pretty sure it was also for compliance with local laws.

      I really don’t know if they have separate app stores between north and south Korea :-)

      For all the rich “western” countries, there is only the one legal-cultural difference between (former) British empire and the Latin influenced world. All other law differences are minor.

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        10 months ago

        Apple can’t even sell to North Korea, so no they have no North Korean App Store.

        As for legal differences, I think maynarkh said it much better than me.