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Telegram removed from the App Store for 'inappropriate content'

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Re: Telegram removed from the App Store for 'inappropriate content'

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Every social network has a "weird" subset. "Weird facebook" is circularly-referencing visual memes. Weird Telegram is people who mix their Deleuze and Bataille and come up with something like the Andy Kaufmann version of witchcraft mysticism. I mean, it's awesome.

where can I find weird telegram?

Re: Telegram removed from the App Store for 'inappropriate content'

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Ahh the app store. It's just like the internet, except the websites are mini apps, and a mega corporation gets to control whats on it. And takes 30% of everything you make. Brilliant.

Ahh the App Store. It's just like the Play Store, except no viruses, far fewer scam apps, and there's a legitimate and thriving market for paid apps.

This is a big plus for me. A vetted walled garden where I can give things a try without much fear of nasties is a big plus.

Re: Telegram removed from the App Store for 'inappropriate content'

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Ahh the App Store. It's just like the Play Store, except no viruses, far fewer scam apps, and there's a legitimate and thriving market for paid apps.

The app stores you mentioned are inextricably to their respective operating systems. The problems with the Play Store are a compromise I'm willing to deal with so I can easily install apps using alternative app stores or none at all.

The store is their way to control their ecosystem, has nothing to do with the OS. This effort is a power-play against decentralized apps that threaten the centralized platform model.

Re: Telegram removed from the App Store for 'inappropriate content'

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Ahh the app store. It's just like the internet, except the websites are mini apps, and a mega corporation gets to control whats on it. And takes 30% of everything you make. Brilliant.

Ahh the App Store. It's just like the Play Store, except no viruses, far fewer scam apps, and there's a legitimate and thriving market for paid apps.

You compare the store to another sore while op compared it to the internet.

Re: Telegram removed from the App Store for 'inappropriate content'

#55
From the article:

> Telegram has risen in popularity thanks to its focus on advanced security features and the ability to hold secret conversations with end-to-end encryption.

Isn't this wrong? I thought Telegram was famous for decrypting messages in transit.

Re: Telegram removed from the App Store for 'inappropriate content'

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Ahh the app store. It's just like the internet, except the websites are mini apps, and a mega corporation gets to control whats on it. And takes 30% of everything you make. Brilliant.

Ahh the App Store. It's just like the Play Store, except no viruses, far fewer scam apps, and there's a legitimate and thriving market for paid apps.

This is not a matter of saying that a bad thing is good just because the counterpart is worse, I think that the dialog have to go a bit beyond that point. We lost control of the communication channels for the internet, it was meant to be free. This is the important topic.

Re: Telegram removed from the App Store for 'inappropriate content'

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And how much does it cost to build and maintain your own domain, storage, delivery/updates infrastructure and billing system? Oh, and how about marketing for your app?

The app stores market your app for you? Ha!

Ask developers how much difference being made a featured app makes to sales. Apple recently radically redesigned the App Store so that it could more effectively promote apps.

Re: Telegram removed from the App Store for 'inappropriate content'

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ahh the App Store. It's just like the Play Store, except no viruses, far fewer scam apps, and there's a legitimate and thriving market for paid apps.

This is a big plus for me. A vetted walled garden where I can give things a try without much fear of nasties is a big plus.

The problem isn't that the vetted app store exists. It is that the vetted app store controlled by the device manufacturer is the only way you are allowed to install applications

Re: Telegram removed from the App Store for 'inappropriate content'

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Ahh the app store. It's just like the internet, except the websites are mini apps, and a mega corporation gets to control whats on it. And takes 30% of everything you make. Brilliant.

Ahh the App Store. It's just like the Play Store, except no viruses, far fewer scam apps, and there's a legitimate and thriving market for paid apps.

Why can't we have the best of both worlds? Apps that have been manually checked or curated can be marked as "Trusted/Certified" (similar to WHQL certified drivers), while others can be marked as "Untrusted/Use at your own risk".

Re: Telegram removed from the App Store for 'inappropriate content'

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Ahh the app store. It's just like the internet, except the websites are mini apps, and a mega corporation gets to control whats on it. And takes 30% of everything you make. Brilliant.

And the incentive/risk tradeoff is too much in favour of the former for optimistic entrepreneurs to ever think they'll be affected by something like this.
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