Tell HN: Max messenger app removed from App Store

#1

Post by secondary_op » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 3:42 AM UTC

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)

Re: Tell HN: Max messenger app removed from App Store

#2

Post by dotcoma » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 3:50 AM UTC

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

Re: Tell HN: Max messenger app removed from App Store

#3

Post by asadbashir » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 4:30 AM UTC

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Re: Tell HN: Max messenger app removed from App Store

#4

Post by commie996 » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 9:07 AM UTC

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.

Re: Tell HN: Max messenger app removed from App Store

#5

Post by nunobrito » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 10:29 AM UTC

commie996 wrote: post #4

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.

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

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

Re: Tell HN: Max messenger app removed from App Store

#6

Post by secondary_op » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 5:31 AM UTC

And push notifications have stopped working, even if app remains on device, calls no longer going through. Democracy, F*k Yeah!