The US government has crossed yet another red line, pressuring a company into removing an application that provides legitimate information to Americans. The ICEBlock account on Bluesky reports:
We just received a message from Apple’s App Review that #ICEBlock has been removed from the App Store due to “objectionable content”. The only thing we can imagine is this is due to pressure from the Trump Admin.
We have responded and we’ll fight this! #resist
When it comes to Apple’s software, Plato may have been right. Every change is for the worse. Catalina is outrageously slow. The Books app on the iPad has always been an advertising medium, but it’s gotten really out of hand now.
A few days ago, The Magic Battery magically disappeared from my new iPad. I don’t know why. It’s still on the old iPad. My best guess is that it no longer allows Epub files which I created myself.
Another book, one of the few which I purchased from Apple, is now reachable only by going through a page advertising the other books in the series.
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